GEN923 People who do acts of generous sustaining benevolence are not all the same.   The Mussar tradition points out that some people are moved to acts of chesed whenever they are confronted by someone who is in need of their help.  Others, however, don’t wait for that sort of opportunity to arrive on their doorstep, but rather search out any chance to act generously in ways that sustain others.   This is what the sages meant when they wrote that the way of those who do chesed is to run after the poor.   Shabbat 104a.   Abraham was the paragon of what it means to pursue chesed because the Torah tells us that he actually ran to do kind acts for others.  MORINIS 189