בבא קמא צב

A miser who never gave צדקה or let an עני into his home was once overcome by a feeling of mercy for a beggar who looked like he would die of hunger. He had the beggar enter his home and gave him moldy bread and food that was past it’s time. No sooner had the עני finished eating when he grabbed his stomach, which was stricken by food poisoning. The בעל הבית gave him a place to lie down and periodically checked up on him. But that same night he died. The people of the town observed that the קמצן in one day and at one time was מקיים three מצוות which don’t have a שיעור. The three were הכנסת אורחים, ביקור חולים, ולויית המת.”

06/10/2021