Tzedakah
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /t͡səˈdakə/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Tzedakah is a noun meaning (Judaism) The Jewish tradition of charity.
Meaning
(Judaism) The Jewish tradition of charity.
Example Sentences
I began to fill this little wooden tzedakah box with tiny slips of paper, each containing a single word or phrase as a “prompt” for remembering some gifted moment or intense experience of my life.
Wherever Jews have lived in relative freedom and free markets—the United States, Britain and its commonwealth, the Ottoman Near East, post-Enlightenment Western Europe—we've done pretty well. We've built great communities. We've devoted ourselves to Torah. We've pursued tzedakah, charity, with abandon.
Word Forms
- tzedakahs
- tzedaka
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include tzedaka, tsedakah, mitzvah, halukka, mitzva, tish.
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