re: #243 The Vicious Babushka

There is nothing in Judaism that compares to Calvinism. In Judaism, the rich are expected to be more generous when it comes to feeding the hungry, housing the homeless and helping the infirm. If they do not help others according to their means they will become impoverished.

Exactly and that is, more than once, taught by Jesus as well. Telling the rich young man that if he wants eternal life he needs to give everything away to the poor.

Christians would do well to remember Maimonides’ Eight Levels of Charity as well.