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tzedaka

tzedaka is the alternative spelling of tzedakah.

Meaning of tzedakah

Noun

tzedakah (plural tzedakot or tzedakahs)

  1. (Judaism) The Jewish tradition of charity.
    • 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...2012 August 29, Jeffrey Goldberg, quoting Noam Neusner, “Mitt Romney, the Tikkun Olam President?”, in The Atlantic

Forms of tzedaka

pluraltzedakot
pluraltzedakas

Questions about tzedaka

What is tzedaka the alternative spelling of?
Tzedaka is the alternative spelling of tzedakah.

Words near tzedaka in the dictionary

  1. tzatziki
  2. tzatzikis
  3. TZD
  4. TZDs
  5. tze char
  6. tzedaka
  7. tzedakah
  8. tzedakahs
  9. tzedakas
  10. tzedakot
  11. Tzekung

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