DEUT811 (I found an allusion to the worthiness of causing others to perform good deeds in [this] Scriptural verse: "Therefore I command you to say [to others]: 'You shall surely open your hand'" -- one should say, one should order and urge others to open their hands and contribute.) I have devoted considerable attention to the subject to demonstrate, for everyone's benefit, the great importance of arousing others to perform mitzvoth. All of this activity is included in the virtue of chesed. Yet people have the habit of avoiding the tasks of encouraging others to do mitzvoth even where the need is extremely urgent. As a result the mitzvah is not fulfilled. Such conduct is not at all commendable.