PBA, you’re spot on. When the thread turned to the elaboration of rules and hashkafot on helping females in distress (how much distress, who determines it, etc. — and it was you who set the standard of “absolute need” that she has to determine, in the absence of which she should decline help), my eyes kept reading but my mind went numb. Your rebuttal brought my head somewhat back to life; it recalled the concept of chessed as something that has no ????? — something we should do without calculating.
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