A Short Tribute

One should use one's wealth for charitable action, and provide food and drink for the poor to the best of one's ability, limiting spending for themselves and giving to the poor, and providing oneself with a small full yet full measure of satisfaction. In this way one comes to merit the World to Come… Aside from doing charitable acts for the poor, one must also be patient with them, listen to all they say and grieve together with them about their misery. One must attend to them the entire time they speak, and not say, "You have said enough, I have understood all you mean"; they should be cherished as are sons speaking before their fathers, and the longer they speak, the more one should be pleased…"