Related for Ketubot 134:4
תנו רבנן מעשה באנשי גליל העליון שלקחו לעני בן טובים אחד מציפורי ליטרא בשר בכל יום ליטרא בשר מאי רבותא אמר רב הונא ליטרא בשר משל עופות ואיבעית אימא בליטרא בשר ממש רב אשי אמר התם כפר קטן היה בכל יומא הוה מפסדי חיותא אמטולתיה:
Our Rabbis taught: It once happened that the people of Upper Galilee bought for a poor member of a good family of Tzippori a pound of meat every day. “A pound of meat”! What is so great about this? Huna replied: [It was] a pound of fowl’s meat. And if you want I might say: [They purchased] ordinary meat for a pound [of money]. Ashi replied: The place was a small village and everyday a beast had to be lost for his sake.
Tosefta Peah
A poor person who gave a perutah (a small copper coin) to the communal fund and a piece of bread to the charity plate, we accept it from him. If he doesn't give, we don't require him to give. [If] they gave him new [clothes] and he returned to them [worn out] clothes, we accept it from him. If he didn't give [anything], we do not require him to give. [If] he was used to silk clothes, we give him silk clothes (cf. Y. Peah VIII.7.5). [If he was accustomed to having] a ma'ah (מָעָה not מטה, one-sixth of a denar/zuz, see Ket. 5:9, per Kulp), we give him a ma'ah; [similarly, if he is accustomed to having] dough, we give him dough, bread we give him bread, to be fed inside his mouth we feed him inside his mouth, as it says (Deut. 15:8), "[pledge to him (the needy one)] sufficient for his lack that is lacking to him (לו)." Even a slave, even a horse. "To him (לו)" -- this [refers to] a wife, as it says (Gen. 2:18), "I will make for him (לו) a help-mate opposite him." It so happened with Hillel the Elder, he obtained for a poor person of noble descent a horse upon which to ride and a servant to run in front of him (Ketubot 67b:3, Steinsaltz tr.). And moreover, it so happened with the people of the Galilee that they would bring a Sepphoris pound of meat to one old man every day (cf. Y. Peah VIII.7.4), Guggenheimer tr.).
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