zedakah
zedakah is the alternative spelling of tzedakah.
Meaning of tzedakah
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
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