Tosefta for Ketubot 133:13
ת"ר יתום ויתומה שבאו להתפרנס מפרנסין את היתומה ואחר כך מפרנסין את היתום מפני שהאיש דרכו לחזור על הפתחים ואין אשה דרכה לחזור יתום ויתומה
Our Rabbis taught: If an orphan boy and an orphan girl come to be sustained [from charity], the girl orphan is to be sustained first and the boy orphan afterwards, because it is normal for a man to go begging but it is unusual for a woman to do so. If an orphan boy and an orphan girl
Tosefta Peah
They may not give a poor person wandering from place to place less than a loaf worth a pundion at a time when four seahs [of wheat cost] one sela (see Peah 8:7, following Kulp Tr.). If he spends the night [at a place], they must give him the cost of what he needs for the night (ibid.), oil and pulse. If he stays over Shabbat they must give him enough food for three meals (ibid.), oil, pulse, fish, and vegetables. In what context does this apply? [It applies] when they know him, [in which case] they even clothe him (Y. Peah VIII.6.8). [But] if he [is someone who] is just going around to all the entrances [i.e., begging from door to door], they do not get involved with him in every thing (see Ketubot 67b:9).
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