"If anyone is poor among your fellow Israelites in any of the towns of the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward them. Rather, be openhanded and freely lend them whatever they need…Give generously to them and do so without a grudging heart; then because of this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you put your hand to. There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your fellow Israelites who are poor and needy in your land." (Devarim 15:7-11)
"Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard." (Yeshayahu 58:6-8)
"If you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday." (Yeshayahu 58:10)
"The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt." (Vayikra, 19:34)
"Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself." (Vayikra 19:18)
"They have freely scattered their gifts to the poor, their righteousness endures forever; their horn will be lifted high in honor." (Tehillim 112:9)
"Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to act." (Tehillim 3:27)
"One man gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty. A generous man will prosper; he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed." (Mishlei 11:24-25)
"He who is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will reward him for what he has done." (Mishlei 19:17)
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"Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken." (Kohelet 4:9-12)
"Once, as Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai was coming forth from Jerusalem, Rabbi Joshua followed after him and beheld the Temple in ruins. "Woe unto us," Rabbi Joshua cried, "that this, the place where the iniquities of Israel were atoned for, is laid waste!" "My son," Rabbi Yohanan said to him, "be not grieved. We have another atonement as effective as this. And what is it? It is acts of loving-kindness, as it is said, 'For I desire mercy and not sacrifice." (Talmud, Abot de Rabbi Nathan 6)
"All men are responsible for one another." (Talmud, Sanhedrin 27b)
"A man should share in the distress of the community, for so we find that Moses, our teacher, shared in the distress of the community." (Talmud, Taanit 11)
"'Ye shall walk after the Lord your God.' But how can a man walk after God who is a devouring fire? It means, walk after His attributes: clothe the naked, visit the sick, comfort the mourner, bury the dead." (Talmud, Sota 14a)
"Even a poor man who himself subsists on charity should give charity." (Talmud, Gittin 7b)
"When the Holy One loves a man, He sends him a present in the shape of a poor man, so that he should perform some good deed to him, through the merit of which he may draw a cord of grace." (Zohar, Genesis 104a)