Nachschlagewerk zu Dewarim 15:29

Do not clench tight your fist and desist from always giving to the poor and indigent. Never turn from helping your relatives making like you don’t know them.

If a man owned a Jewish slave and freed him at the end of six years, the Torah commanded that the slave should not be sent away empty handed but that he should be given gifts from the herd, the threshing floor and the wine cellar. (Deut. 15:14.) Rabbi Ishmael said, “Come and see how great is the mercy of the Creator who says to a man, ‘If a Jewish slave has worked for you and you send him away empty handed, he will have to beg from door to door or he will be forced to sell himself into slavery again. It is better that you give him some of that with which God has blessed you that he should not have to beg or to sell himself to another master.’”

When the Bible commands man to be generous to the poor in order to gain the blessing of God, it employs the word “Biglal”. (Deut. 15:10) The use of this word shows us that fortune is like a wheel which constantly turns. One day fortune smiles on one, the next on another.²⁸⁾שבת קנ״א ב׳. (A play in words is here engaged in. ״בגלל״ means in order that; ״גלגל״ means a wheel.)

On the second day, we read in the section (Deuteronomy 15:19) "Every firstborn" until the end of the portion. The Maftir is read like the previous day, and as Haftorah we read in Habakkuk from "And Hashem in His Holy Sanctuary" until "for the conductor with my melodies".