DEUT1034 (Continued from [[GEN1120]] Genesis 21:33 tamarisk AHAVCH 197-8) Let each person look at himself. Sometimes he builds extra buildings in his yard. He does not require them for sleeping facilities, but for less vital uses, and he convinces himself that these are a necessity for one purpose or another. So how can he then refuse to provide quarters for the needs of his soul? Now, if people individually cannot afford the cost, certainly the community is obliged to provide a hostile for wayfarers, so that they should not have to sleep outside. The community must also take care to feed them, and must by no means allow them to depart, God forbid, without food. Chazal (Sotah 46b) have remarked in commenting on [this] verse: "Our hands have not shed this blood," that it conveys: "He did not come to our hand and we let him go without food." Chazal have also declared that "had Jonathan given David two loaves of bread"… as we have explained in chapter 1. It has now become the standard practice in Jewry to found a Hachnasath Orchim Society which devotes self to the fulfillment of this mitzvah. Happy is the lot of these people!