הַכְנָסַת אוֹרְחִים

ביטוי (אנגלית)

To house needy wayfarers/ hospitality

הגדרה (אנגלית)

The commandment is for guests who arrive at a place on a temporary basis and have no place to stay or eat.

("These are the things that a man eats of in this world, and the horn is raised up for him in the world to come: these are: honoring father and mother, and showing kindness, and gathering strangers, and bringing peace between a man and his neighbor, and learning Torah as against all of them!" - Kiddushin 33b, and so: "Our arrows have gone up and sat inside the heifer, from the pride of the And rejoice in the honor of the assembly of guests that is established in them" - Mendelei Mos/ The Third Journeys of Benjamin, O, Peg, and so on: "The Holy One, blessed be He, has performed for us a miracle and summoned for us to Ellis Island a single company, and its name is "the assembly of guests"" - Peace be upon you/ Our feet stand at the gates of America, Ren, and so on: "And the Arabs are "Complete gentlemen. One effendi invited us to his house and treated us like a gathering of guests" - Agnon/ Tamol Shilshom, 112)