tzedakah

1. (Judaism) The Jewish tradition of charity.Examples: "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 abandon."; "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."Judaismuncountableusually