Exegesis of Proverbs 14:34 'Tzedaka teromem goi veHesed leumim hatat' through Talmudic reading. The usual translation ('crime is the shame of peoples') is rejected as meaningless. The word Hesed can mean both charity and crime (specifically incest — love gone too far). The Talmud reads it as 'the charity of the peoples is a sin' — a deliberately polemic statement that requires patient analysis to reach its true conclusion through a third reading.