LEV105 We must do chesed for everyone and not merely for our friends. The Talmud (Chulin 63a) states that the Hebrew name for the white stork is chasida, because it acts with kindness, chesed, toward its friends. The Ramban writes that the birds enumerated in this portion are forbidden for consumption because of their cruelty. If so, the stork should be permissible since it does kindness. The Chidushai Ha-Rim answers thus: the stork does favors only for those that are its friends. Since it does not do chesed for strangers it is considered unclean. Chesed must be done for everyone, not only for one's friends.