Father
The parent company or more suitably the "father company" of Real Incorporated is Holy Industries. Holy Industries is an organization with a mission to bring holiness to the world one industry at a time.
What is the image above you might ask? That would be the letter "Gimmel," the third letter in the Hebrew alphabet. Jewish tradition tells us that this letter represents a giver of charity and its bottom-left extension is said to represent the hand giving the actual charity. Another interpretation is that this extension is actually a foot, and it represents the giver of charity actually running after the receiver in order to give to him. The very idea behind why we call G-d the "Father" is because the father, and the concept of the masculine in general, is the concept of the giver (insofar as the creation of life is concerned). Hence, an image representing a giver is quite suitable for a page called Father.
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“Charity is greater than all the commandments.” - The Alter Rebbe, Iggeret HaKodesh, Epistle 3
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“Charity is equivalent to all the commandments (combined).” - Bava Batra 9a
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"Charity and acts of kindness are the equivalent of all the commandments of the Torah (combined)." - Pe'ah 1:1 (Jerusalem Talmud)
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“Charity is the core of all the commandments of action and surpasses them all.” - The Alter Rebbe, Tanya, Chapter 37
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“The 613 commandments of the Torah are by and large precepts which involve action.” - The Alter Rebbe, Tanya, Chapter 53
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“Throughout the Jerusalem Talmud, charity is referred to as ‘The Commandment’ because this is the prime commandment and most auspicious of all.” - Dvar Malchus in English (Rabbi Binyomin Schlanger), Vayikra, Page 34
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"[The commandment of charity] is equivalent to all the commandments (combined), the most practical of all practical commandments, and supersedes them all. Man takes from the toil of his hands, of the money he has earned, and gives of his own livelihood (his own life).” - Dvar Malchus in English (Rabbi Binyomin Schlanger), Vayikra, Page 220
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“This is the main thing: to increase in the performance of commandments, especially the commandment of charity (which also includes all commandments within it and) which draws the redemption closer.” - Dvar Malchus in English (Rabbi Binyomin Schlanger), Vayikra, Page 209
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“...If you wish to repent, search for any poor people whom you may have forgotten, and provide them with sustenance… providing for the poor and covering the naked should be your central focus.” - Isaiah 58:7 Elucidated by Rabbi Adin Even Steinsaltz
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“When the approaching footsteps of the Messiah are close upon us, the principal service of G‑d is the service of charity.” - The Alter Rebbe, Iggeret HaKodesh, Epistle 9
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"Great is charity, for since the day that the world was created until this day the world stands upon charity." - Midrash Tanna d'Vei Eliyahu Zutta 1
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“We are obligated to be careful with regard to the commandment of charity to a greater extent than all other positive commandments.” - Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Matnot Aniyim 10:1
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"There is no greater and more splendid happiness than to gladden the hearts of the poor..." - Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Megillah VaChannukah 2:17
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