Whoever regularly keeps this mitzvah and performs chessed-kindness merits having children who possess wisdom, wealth and [eloquence]. Also, all of the blessings of the Torah only come true on condition that this mitzvah is kept, as it is written, All these blessings will come upon you and overtake you, if you hearken to the voice of Hashem, your God (Devarim 28:2); that is,  [the blessing will come upon you] when your listen to the voice of Hashem, your God and you walk in His ways, and the ways of Hashem are doing charity and kindness with people, having mercy even on the wicked, and feeding and supporting people — that is how we are to do kindness with each other. And just as Hashem gives gifts without receiving anything in return and He inclines strict law towards kindness, so, too, must we do and behave. Fortunate is the person who clings to this trait; fortunate is he, for he also extends this merit to the generations that will follow him.