The Weight of Human Dignity (Part 3): Charity Begins at Home

Does the mitzvah of tzedakah extend to non-Jews as well? The Talmud introduces the principle of Darkei Shalom – ways of peace that mandate our ensuring non-Jews set up social structures to care for their poor and bury their dead. Find out how one Jewish community partnered with neighborhood churches remit medical debt across their state.

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Rabbanit Nechama Goldman Barash

Rabbanit Nechama Goldman Barash teaches contemporary halakhah and Talmud at Matan, Midreshet Torah V’Avodah (MTVA), Amudim and the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. She is the educational director of the Pardes Learning Seminar. She moved to Israel in 1991, after graduating with B.A. from Stern College in New York. Nechama holds a master's degree in Talmud from Bar-Ilan University and is a graduate of Nishmat’s Yoetzet Halacha program and fertility counselor's program, which certified her to serve as an advisor to

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