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7 Must Read Life Lessons from Abraham Lincoln - by Dumb Little M. Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States. He served from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln successfully led the United States through its darkest hour … the American Civil War. In the end, Lincoln was able to preserve the Union and end slavery. Prior to his election in 1860, as the first U.S. Republican president, Lincoln was a country lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, a member of the United States House of Representatives, and an unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. Senate twice. Concerning slavery, Lincoln was forthright and open in his opposition to the expansion of slavery. During his time in office he introduced measures that resulted in the abolition of slavery, including the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and the passing of the 13th Amendment to the U.S.

Just six days after a large-scale surrender of the Confederate forces (under General Robert E. 7 Must-Read Life Lessons from Abraham Lincoln: Hustle Constantly Improve.

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Family. Life's Work. Relationships. Oblique Strategies. Signspotting | Funny and absurd signs from around the world. Tzedakah. Precedents in ancient Israel[edit] The Hebrew Bible teaches the obligation to aid those in need, but does not employ one single term for this obligation.[2] The term tzedekah occurs 157 times in the Masoretic Text, typically in relation to "righteousness" per se, usually in the singular, but sometimes in the plural tzedekot, in relation to acts of charity.[3] In the Septuagint this was sometimes translated eleemosyne, "almsgiving. "[4][5] In rabbinical literature of the classical and Middle Ages[edit] In classical rabbinical literature, it was argued that the Biblical regulations concerning left-overs only applied to corn fields, orchards, and vineyards, and not to vegetable gardens; the classical rabbinical writers were much stricter in regard to who could receive the remains.

Maimonides lists his Eight Levels of Giving, as written in the Mishneh Torah, Hilkhot matanot aniyim ("Laws about Giving to Poor People"), Chapter 10:7-14: In practice[edit] Tzedakah motif on a Jewish gravestone.

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