All People Have Dignity
By Shlomo Bar-Ayal ~ June 2nd, 2022 @ 7:29 am
פרשת במדבר / ג’ בסיון תשפ”ב – מ”ז בעומר
In the Book of Ruth, Boaz is presented as a great man of charity. Yet he allows the poor to glean his fields and thus forces them to go to the threshing floor, then to the bake the bread. Wouldn’t it be kinder to the poor just to give them bread? The answer is that would take away from the poor’s dignity.
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About the Author: Shlomo Bar-Ayal is an Israeli-American, or an American-Israeli (I could never get that right) who is unabashedly pro-Israel, pro-US and a great guy.
He has an open mind to opinions that he agrees with.
Besides blogging on whatever he feels like blogging about on any given day he enjoys learning Talmud, davening, being the candyman in his synagogue, smoking his tobacco pipe, giving tours at the Grand Lodge of New York, being involved in Freemasonry, and partaking in an adult beverage every now and then