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whose sensitive heart feels more kindly than the heart of man,
you who are subject to hard sufferings, feel the whole depth of the
sufferings of the poor, of the distress of a wife who has no
bread for her sick husband, of the despair of a mother who has
no food for her starving children -- you must be the friend
of the poor & make your dwelling a storehouse of Providence. You
must give bread to the hungry; you must not wait till it is
asked for, you must offer it, nay force it into the hands of
those whose life is one continual struggle between the pangs
of hunger & the shame of begging. Woman's heart treasures
true charity & the benevolence of the Jewish woman is
proverbial; innumerable blessings are invoked upon those
noble-hearted women to whom the way to the poorest houses is
familiar, who delight the needy by their presence and console
them by their words, while their hand offers substantial
relief. Oh, let your houses be graced by acts of charity
in thought as in deed. Away with the leaven of unkindness,
it ought never to exist either during Passover or after Passover
wherever a Jewish woman dwells. But is impossible for
you to be good wives & good mothers according to the spirit of
Judaism, to dispense charity in the noblest sense of the word

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whose sensitive heart feels more kindly than the heart of man,
you who are subject to hard sufferings, feel the whole depth of the
sufferings of the poor, of the distress of a wife who has no
bread for her sick husband, of the despair of a mother who has
no food for her starving children -- you must be the friend
of the poor & make your dwelling a storehouse of Providence. You
must give bread to the hungry; you must not wait till it is
asked for, you must offer it, nay force it into the hands of
those whose life is one continual struggle between the pangs
of hunger & the shame of begging. Woman's heart treasures
true charity & the benevolence of the Jewish woman is
proverbial; innumerable blessings are invoked upon those
noble-hearted women to whom the way to the poorest houses is
familiar, who delight the needy by their presence and console
them by their words, while their hand offers substantial
relief. Oh, let your houses be graced by acts of charity
in thought as in deed. Away with the leaven of unkindness,
it ought never to exist either during Passover or after Passover
wherever a Jewish woman dwells. But is impossible for
you to be good wives & good mothers according to the spirit of
Judaism, to dispense charity in the noblest sense of the word