Gemilut chasadim is the category Judaism ranks above charity, on the stated grounds that money can be given by anyone and presence cannot, that it applies to rich and poor alike, and that it can be done for the dead as well as the living. The list is specific and the law is specific about how to do it: visiting the sick removes a sixtieth of the illness, but not in the first three hours of the day when the patient looks better than they are, nor in the last three when they look worse; a visitor sits low, not above the bed. A mourner is not greeted and is not spoken to first — the visitor waits to be addressed, which comes from Job's friends sitting seven days in silence before they ruined it by talking. Accompanying a body to burial takes precedence over Torah study. In practice this is what a Jewish community mostly is: a burial society, a rota of meals for the bereaved and the newly delivered, a free-loan fund, and people who turn up.