tzedakah
/t͡səˈdakə/
tzedakah noun: the Jewish tradition of charity.
Noun
tzedakah (plural tzedakot or tzedakahs)
- 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
- 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.2020, Michele Maxwell, The Tzedakah Box, Balboa Press, →ISBN
Forms of tzedakah
| plural | tzedakot |
|---|---|
| plural | tzedakahs |
| alternative form | tsedakah |
| alternative form | tzedaka |
| alternative form | zedakah |
Origin of tzedakah
Borrowed from Hebrew צְדָקָה (ts'daká, “charity”).
Questions about tzedakah
- What does tzedakah mean?
- Tzedakah means the Jewish tradition of charity.
- What part of speech is tzedakah?
- Tzedakah is a noun.
- How do you pronounce tzedakah?
- Tzedakah is pronounced /t͡səˈdakə/.
- What is the plural of tzedakah?
- The plural of tzedakah is tzedakot.
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