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? asked in Society & CultureCommunity Service · 3 years ago

Is it against Judaism to donate to charity?

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  • 3 years ago
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    Quite the contrary, it’s a mitzvah (command) called Tzedakah.

    "Tzedakah and acts of kindness are the equivalent of all the mitzvot of the Torah" – Jerusalem Talmud, Pe'ah 1:1.

    "Greater is tzedakah than all the sacrifices" – Talmud, Sukkah 49b.

    "If only the people who lived in the generation of the Flood and the people of Sodom had given tzedakah, they would not have perished" – Midrash Zutta, Song of Songs 1.

    "Great is tzedakah, for since the day that the world was created until this day the world stands upon tzedakah" – Midrash Tanna d'Vei Eliyahu Zutta 1.

  • Kevin7
    Lv 7
    3 years ago

    It is a mitzvah (blessing ) to donate to charity

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