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Is it against Judaism to donate to charity?
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- Red FoxLv 73 years agoFavorite Answer
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.