by Rabbi Eliyahu ben Avraham Shlomo HaCohen.
He was known as a preacher. In his sermons, he preached asceticism and distancing himself from the pleasures of this world. Being wealthy himself, he preached to the rich to distribute their money to charity and saw poverty and social inequality as a moral religious problem, which needed to be rectified by the community. He saw the rich of the community as "guardians" in charge of the finances of the poor. He himself served as a guardian to the poor and would distribute to them some of the funds he had amassed from the rich. In his sermons, he stressed the reward and punishment of the next world on the one hand and hell on the other.
Separate title for part two.
Jerusalem, 1863.
Shoshana Halevy 85.
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