<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">R' Micha wrote: <i> It seems to me self evident, a huge statement about the relative<br>importance of chessed.</i><div><br></div><div>And not to allow him for his own immediate family <b>IS</b> chessed?</div><div>Also, if he comes upon a meis, he could demonstrate his chessed by summoning another person.</div><div>Sorry, that answer is not self evident. </div><div>The only answer I could accept is that it is a chok. It certainly isn't rational in my way of thinking and IMHO.</div></body></html>