Gemach (Hebrew: גמ"ח, plural, גמחים, gemachim, an abbreviation for גמילות חסדים, gemilut chasadim, "acts of kindness") is a Jewish free-loan fund that subscribes to both the positive Torah commandment of lending money and the Torah prohibition against charging interest on a personal loan to a fellow Jew. Unlike bank loans, gemach loans are interest-free, and are often set up with easy repayment terms.
Gemachs operate in most Jewish communities. The traditional gemach concept — that of a money-lending fund — extends loans on a short- or long-term basis for any need, including emergency loans, medical expenses, wedding expenses, etc. However, many people have expanded the concept of gemachs to include free loans of household items, clothing, books, equipment, services and advice.
Gemachs may be operated both on a communal basis (such as by treasurers of community funds) and an internal basis (such as by businesses, organizations, schools and families). The ideal of contributing to or forming one's own gemach was popularized by Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan (the Chofetz Chaim), who addressed many halachic questions about the practice and lauded its spiritual benefits in his landmark book, Ahavat Chesed ("Loving Kindness").
Gemach (Hebrew: גמ"ח, plural, גמחים, gemachim, an abbreviation for גמילות חסדים, gemilut chasadim, "acts of kindness") is a Jewish free-loan fund that...
acronym of Gemilas chasadim such as Gemach or GM"CH. A community may have dozens of unique (and sometimes overlapping) Gemach organizations Kiruv organizations...
Lupolianski decided to start his own gemach by buying a few vaporizers to lend to others. People who heard about his gemach began dropping off other items which...
Retrieved 19 April 2022. Konstantin Langmaier, Dem Land Ere und Nucz, Frid und Gemach: Das Land als Ehr-, Nutz- und Friedensgemeinschaft: Ein Beitrag zur Diskussion...
Chalkowski (Hebrew: רחל שלקובסקי; born 1939) is an Israeli midwife and a gemach organizer. Widely known as Bambi, she is a Haredi Jew, and is married to...
1.894%. Islamic banking and financing Murabaha Profit and loss sharing Gemach AAOIFI Standard 17, quoted in The UK based educational project and exhibition...
Schwalbe, die kehret zum wirtlichen Dach, Sie baut sich so emsig ihr bräutlich Gemach, Die Liebe soll wohnen da drinnen. Sie bringt sich geschäftig von kreuz...
Historia y Mapas Konstantin Langmaier (2016), "Dem Land Ere und Nucz, Frid und Gemach: Das Land als Ehr-, Nutz- und Friedensgemeinschaft: Ein Beitrag zur Diskussion...
interest. Hebrew Free Loan societies (such a society is also known as a Gemach) are based on the biblical injunction that Jews may not charge interest...
and discussion of the Mishna as printed in the Talmud גמילות חסדים, גמ״ח (gemach) - a fund or bank for interest-free lending of items such as tefilin, wedding...
Palestinian suicide bombing. Rachel Chalkowski (born 1939), midwife and a gemach organizer David L. Reich, American academic anesthesiologist, President...
Archived from the original on 26 June 2011. Retrieved 10 August 2011. "Queens Gemach Network". Queens Realtor Team. Archived from the original on 1 February...
students. Rekhasim has more than 80 synagogues and numerous chesed and gemach organizations. "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics...
eruv for the community, and have also launched social services such as a gemach (free-loan society), meals for the sick, and help for new mothers. As of...
living rooms (parlour (Hofestube), bed chamber (Schlafkammer), apartment (Gemach), young ladies room (Jungfrauen-Stube)) as well as the rooms for officials...
Chochmas Shlomo yeshiva gedola in Jerusalem. He also established the "Neuwirth Gemach". He lived in the Bayit Vegan neighborhood of Jerusalem. Neuwirth was a...
president and secretary, and Heshy Zvi Rubashkin as president and treasurer. Gemach Mamash Now Corporation, founded in 1996, has Sholom and Heshy Zvi Rubashkin...
Grodno, where he would remain for over ten years, opening a yeshiva and a gemach. During World War I, he and his wife were instrumental in Indura's aid and...
Hebrew Free Loan Society of New York, founded in 1892, is the oldest money gemach in the United States. It spawned similarly named free-loan funds in many...
144–186 Langmaier, Konstantin. (2016). "'Dem Land Ere und Nucz, Frid und Gemach': Das Land als Ehr-, Nutz- und Friedensgemeinschaft: Ein Beitrag zur Diskussion...
Mann's advice and expertise helped grow Yad Sarah from a neighborhood gemach into a nationwide home care equipment-lending organization with 72 branches...
original on 1 May 2010. Retrieved 26 September 2010. "Free Loan Funds – Gemachs". Colel Chabad sidebar. 2010. Archived from the original on 25 March 2010...
who come to it for prayers and study. The yeshiva building also operates gemachs (free-loan funds) for needy families, medical expenses and general loans...
Dieser Ort schaidet Duntzweiller und Ditweiller. Von dan gehet die oberkait gemach bergin bis zu einem marckstein. Dieser marckstein wirt genannt oben am Hundthauser...
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