Sukkah 49b Part 3/4

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

What makes tzedakah and chesed so precious? Going through Rabbi Elazar's statements, we learn that tzedakah is kept quiet, that gemilus chasadim outranks tzedakah, and that the reward follows the chesed put into the giving. A yirei shamayim is not fooled into giving to someone unworthy. The pasuk from Eishes Chayil, which Rashi in Mishlei reads as a mashal for the Torah, shows what makes a Toras chesed.

Key points

• Rabbi Elazar ranks tzedakah above all the korbanos, from a pasuk in Mishlei.
• Gemilus chasadim is greater, like a harvest that surely feeds, while planting does not always.
• We learn that not everyone is zocheh to the mitzvah, as a collector can be fooling the giver.
• Rav Chama bar Papa assumes that one blessed with chen is a yirei shamayim.
• Torah learned lishma is Toras chesed, and another view says Torah learned in order to teach.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Rabbi Elazar on giving tzedakah quietly
2. 3:25Gemilus chasadim greater than tzedakah
3. 6:53Tzedakah and mishpat fill the world
4. 9:17Who is zocheh to do chesed
5. 15:17Rav Chama bar Papa on chen
6. 19:07Toras chesed and Eishes Chayil
7. 22:15Torah lishma and shelo lishma
8. 26:26Learning Torah in order to teach

Topics

• Tzedakah
• Gemilus Chasadim
• Torah Lishma
• Eishes Chayil