AffluenceAffluence

Jeremiah 22:13-17

Bachya Ibn Pakuda, Duties of the Heart, trans. Yaakov Feldman (Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson Inc., 1996), 177-178

Susan Sontag, "Regarding the Pain of Others" (New York: Picador, 2003)

Jerusalem Talmud, Nedarim 9:41b/c

Babylonian Talmud, Kiddushin 82b

Mishnah Berurah 671:6

Arthur Green, These are the Words: A Vocabulary of Jewish Spiritual Life (Woodstock: Jewish Lights Publishing, 1999), p.182.

Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh De'ah 249:1

Jeremiah 5:27-29

Aruch HaShulchan, Laws of Tzedakah 251:4

Guides to Personal Growth: Ethical Wills. Ed. Jack Riemer (National Jewish Resource Center, 1978)

Aruch HaShulchan, Laws of Tzedakah, 249:1, 2

Proverbs 10:2

Proverbs 11:16-21

Exodus Rabbah 31:12

BabylonianTalmud, Shabbat 25b

Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Gifts to the Poor 7:5

Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh De'ah 247:1

Ecclesiastes 5:10-11

Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Laws of the Years of Sabbatical 9:16

Rabbi Yehudah HaChassid, Sefer Chasidim, trans. Avraham Finkel (Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson Inc, 1997), 114-115

Ecclesiastes 2:18-24

BabylonianTalmud, Baba Metzia 71a