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   Professional beggars were a despised class; and it was forbidden to support them from the general charity fund with more than small alms (B. B. 9a; see Rashi on the passage; Yoreh De'ah, 250, 3, and the annotations of Shabbethai Cohen, according to which private benefactors may also observe the same rule).

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     A word derived from the Greek ἐλεημοσύνη (mercifulness),...

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     Beggars who went from door to door received nothing, or at...

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   Professional Beggars a Despised Class: As to professional beggars, originally, certainly, and for a long time, they were a despised class among the Hebrews; and the Jewish communities are forbidden to support them from the general charity fund (BB, 9a; Yoreh De`ah, 250, 3).

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   Professional Beggars a Despised Class: As to professional beggars, originally, certainly, and for a long time, they were a despised class among the Hebrews; and the Jewish communities are forbidden to support them from the general charity fund (BB, 9a; Yoreh De`ah, 250, 3).

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   Professional Beggars a Despised Class: As to professional beggars, originally, certainly, and for a long time, they were a despised class among the Hebrews; and the Jewish communities are forbidden to support them from the general charity fund (BB, 9a; Yoreh De'ah, 250, 3).

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   Professional Beggars a Despised Class: As to professional beggars, originally, certainly, and for a long time, they were a despised class among the Hebrews; and the Jewish communities are forbidden to support them from the general charity fund (BB, 9a; Yoreh De`ah, 250, 3).

6. www.smithsonianmag.com › history › myth-professionalThe Myth of Professional Beggars Spawned Today’s Enduring ...

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   Mar 30, 2017 · No, the new social woe wasn’t bedbugs or tuberculosis or any other infectious disease: it was a supposed army of professional beggars spilling into cities across England and America.

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   Are professional beggars a despised class?

   • 4. Professional Beggars a Despised Class: As to professional beggars, originally, certainly, and for a long time, they were a despised class among the Hebrews; and the Jewish communities are forbidden to support them from the general charity fund (BB, 9a; Yoreh De`ah, 250, 3).

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   Should we classify beggars as professionals?

   • But Pimpare thinks classifying beggars as professionals can be dangerous because it suggests society should turn to harsher punishments for poverty. “By blaming people for that failure it doesn’t obligate us collectively through government to step up and ensure there are opportunities available.

   The Myth of Professional Beggars Spawned Today's Enduring Stereotypes

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   Are beggars a problem?

   • Begging has a long, complicated history in England and the U.S. and professional beggars were often seen as people not deserving of aid. Abraham Willemsens/Metropolitan Museum of Art If 19th-century papers are to be believed, the problem had grown to plague-like proportions. Women were warned about this pestilence in ladies’ journals.

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   Are beggars a man or a woman?

   • “The vast majority of beggars are women with children, but the people who get in the literature are men who find a safe space on the street and own it,” says Tim Hitchcock, author of the 2005 Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London. “Are they professional? Possibly. Are they poor? Yes. Are they in need? Yes,” says Hitchcock.

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   Did beggars create a hierarchy of deserving-Ness?

   • They were also trying to create this hierarchy of deserving-ness,” says Stephen Pimpare, author of A People’s History of Poverty in America. “With most of this kind of writing, it’s almost all anecdotal.” In other words, the professional beggars of the 18th and 19th centuries were the welfare queens of their era.

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   Did beggars form a class in the Gospel age?

   • 5. In the Gospel Age: Begging was well known and beggars formed a considerable class in the gospel age. Proof of this is found in the references to almsgiving in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7 and parallels), and in the accounts of beggars in connection with public places, e.g. the entrance to Jericho.

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   Professional Beggars a Despised Class: As to professional beggars, originally, certainly, and for a long time, they were a despised class among the Hebrews; and the Jewish communities are forbidden to support them from the general charity fund (BB, 9a; Yoreh De`ah, 250, 3).