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Bikur Cholim: Visiting the sick

Bikur Cholim: Visiting the sick
Visiting the sick or injured is an act of kindness. Depending on circumstance and relationship, this can be a difficult task. Usually it requires some sort of sacrifice. Bikur Cholim, Hebrew for visiting the sick, is considered a mandate for our Jewish friends as it fulfills an opportunity for a good deed and to show…
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Your Neighbor’s Reputation

Your Neighbor’s Reputation
Love is not a feeling but an action. When we love our neighbors as ourselves, we treat everything about them as valuable as we would anything of our own. What if that included, not just their stuff but also their reputation? Do I guard my neighbor’s name as something as precious as I would my…
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Your Neighbor’s Money

Your Neighbor’s Money
"Let your neighbor's money be as precious as your own." This ancient Jewish saying puts some feet on the Biblical mandate, “love your neighbor.” A frequently cited example is to pull your neighbor’s donkey out if you see it has fallen into a hole. That’s not as easy a task as it may seem, but…
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Who’s my neighbor?

Who’s my neighbor?
Love your neighbor. No greater command exists except the co-command to love God. But who is my neighbor? That exact question was asked of Jesus and He responded by giving us the parable of the Good Samaritan. In this parable we find a robbed and wounded man left for dead on a road. Both a…
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