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When you have finished tithing all the tithes of your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, you shall give them to the Levite, the stranger, the orphan, and the widow, so that they can eat to satiety in your cities. (Deuteronomy 26:12) Thus, this tithe is separated from homegrown crops during the 3rd and 6th year of the seven-year ...
The poor tithe was given to the strangers, orphans, and widows, and distributed locally "within thy gates" [16] to support the Levites and assist the poor. An additional tithe, mentioned in Leviticus 27:32–33 is the cattle tithe, which is to be sacrificed as a korban at the Temple in Jerusalem.
Yibbum (pronounced, Hebrew: ייבום) is the form of levirate marriage found in Judaism.As specified by Deuteronomy 25:5–10, the brother of a man who died without children is permitted and encouraged to marry the widow.
Harvested grapes in basket and reaped barley. The tithe (Hebrew: מעשר; ma'aser) is specifically mentioned in the Books of Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.The tithe system was organized in a seven-year cycle, the seventh-year corresponding to the Shemittah-cycle in which year tithes were broken-off, and in every third and sixth-year of this cycle the second tithe replaced with the poor ...
A Second Home: Orphan Asylums and Poor Families in America (1997) ISBN 0674796446; Herman, Ellen. "Kinship by Design: A History of Adoption in the Modern United States (2008) ISBN 978-0-226-32760-0; Kleinberg, S. J. Widows And Orphans First: The Family Economy And Social Welfare Policy, 1880-1939 (2006) ISBN 0252030206; Miller, Julie.
The "cry of the people oppressed in Egypt, the cry of the foreigner, the widow, and the orphan": oppression of the poor. [10] [11] [6] The "injustice to the wage earner": taking advantage of and defrauding workers (cf. James 5:4). [12] [13] [6] Laurence Vaux's 1583 work, A Catechisme of Christian Doctrine, explains them as follows:
Harvested grapes in basket and reaped barley. The first tithe (Hebrew: מעשר ראשון, romanized: maʿśēr rîshôn) is a positive commandment in the Torah requiring the giving of one tenth of agricultural produce to charity, after the giving of the standard terumah, to the Levite (or Kohen).
After a while, due to the drought, the brook dried up so God told Elijah to go to the town of Sarepta and to seek out a widow that would find him water and food (vv.7-9). Elijah learns that the widow has a son and between them they only have enough flour and oil for one more meal before they die. Despite this, the widow helps Elijah (vv11-14).