{"id":1,"date":"2013-01-06T01:58:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T01:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hesedfoundation.org.php53-6.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com\/?p=1"},"modified":"2013-01-16T13:59:44","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T18:59:44","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hesedfoundation.org\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"What is Hesed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8\" alt=\"Bethesda Fountain Picture\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hesedfoundation.org.php53-6.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Bethesda-Fountain-Picture-205x300.jpg\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hesedfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Bethesda-Fountain-Picture-205x300.jpg 205w, http:\/\/www.hesedfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Bethesda-Fountain-Picture.jpg 439w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What is Hesed?<\/p>\n<p>Within Judaism, there are two different but interrelated concepts or moral action and behavior &#8211; <i>Tzedakah<\/i> (sacred practice of charity) and <i>gemilut hasadim<\/i> (sacred practice of loving kindness).\u00a0 Jewish tradition distinguishes between them in several ways.\u00a0 The essential difference is already evident in the roots of the words: <i>Tzedakah<\/i> derives from <i>tzedek<\/i> (justice, righteousness), and <i>gemilut hasadim<\/i> derives from <i>hesed<\/i> (loving kindness, grace, steadfast love.)\u00a0 The Hesed Foundation believes tzedakah to be a core component of social justice.\u00a0 According to the Talmud, the most virtuous form of giving comes through the promotion of self-sufficiency by offering employment and assisting a person in need; in short, the improvement of the human condition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Contact us &#8211; \u00a0<a href=\"mailto:grants@hesedfoundation.org\">grants@hesedfoundation.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Hesed? Within Judaism, there are two different but interrelated concepts or moral action and behavior &#8211; Tzedakah (sacred practice of charity) and gemilut hasadim (sacred practice of loving kindness).\u00a0 Jewish tradition distinguishes between them in several ways.\u00a0 The essential difference is already evident in the roots of the words: Tzedakah derives from tzedek [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hesedfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hesedfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hesedfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hesedfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hesedfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.hesedfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.hesedfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hesedfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hesedfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hesedfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}