Halakhah for Shabbat 302:12
ופליגא דשמואל דאמר שמואל אין בין העולם הזה לימות המשיח אלא שיעבוד מלכיות בלבד שנא' (דברים טו, יא) כי לא יחדל אביון מקרב הארץ
It was taught, R. Eleazar ha-Kappar said: Let one always pray to be spared this fate [poverty], for if he does not descend [to poverty] his son will, and if not his son, his grandson, for it is said, because that for [bi-gelal] this thing, [etc.].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 10. ');"><sup>20</sup></span> The School of R. Ishmael taught: It is a wheel [galal] that revolves in the world.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Coming to all people or their descendants; Gelal is thus connected with galgal. ');"><sup>21</sup></span>
Sefer HaChinukh
And [it] is practiced in every place and at all times by males and females. And one who transgresses it has violated a positive commandment and shown the trait of cruelty in himself, which is an ugly trait. And anyone who does not have mercy, is not shown mercy from the Heavens, as his body is not fit for mercy (Shabbat 151b).
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