The Poverty Line

Definition of a Pauper: One who has less than 200 Zuz worth: Bava Kama 7a-7b
Qualification to collect from Communal Kitchen: Shabbat 118a
Qualification to collect from Regular Charity: Shabbat 118a
"Poverty" Status for a Soldier housed by the government: Pesachim 35b
Better to be a Charity Collector, than to be the one who has to choose how to give out Charity: Shabbat 118b

Giving Paupers' Tithe to a person who has 200 Zuz in property, but can't liquidate it: Bava Kama 7a-7b
Giving Food of Uncertain Tithing to a Pauper: Shabbat 127b; Eruvin 17b; Pesachim 35b; Succah 35b
Using Food of Uncertain Tithing for Matzah on Pesach: Pesachim 35b
Permitting certain kinds of loans involving rabbinically prohibited interest: Bava Metzia 70b-71a

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