Etymologies
- From Hebrew צדק (tzedek, "righteousness") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Duff grew up in a family that practiced tzedakah, which is giving anonymously.”
The Huffington Post: Regina Varolli: Duff Goldman: The Ace of Cakes On A Sugar High
“In Hebrew there is a word called "tzedakah" that means charity.”
“He was writing about tzedakah, a Hebrew word usually translated as charity, but which really means justice - an act of kindness and compassion designed to fix our world where it is broken.”
“Charity called tzedakah in Hebrew, from the same root as the Hebrew word for “justice”, is likewise expected; in fact, it’s an obligation, a mitzvah.”
“The Hebrew word, "tzedakah" is commonly used to mean "charity," but literally translates to mean”
“My husband hates davening at the Kotel on a weekday because as he stands there with his face in his Siddur, trying to say the Shmoneh Esrei, he's got schnorrers sticking their hands in his face demanding 'tzedakah'.”
“The word "tzedakah" is derived from the Hebrew root Tzadei-Dalet-Qof, meaning righteousness, justice or fairness.”
“She offered her "tzedakah" money collected for charity to help keep COSI open.”
“In Judaism, "tzedakah" is the Hebrew equivalent of charitable acts, defined as "giving aid, assistance and money to the poor and needy or to other worthy causes.”
The Huffington Post: Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen: Tenets Into Transformation, Part 1
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tzedakah’.
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Hanukkah Words
Hanukkah, Chanukah, shammash, shamash, shammes, candle, candelabrum, menorah, chanukkiah, oil, eight, tzedakah and 11 more...
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JesusIsLord's Words
debauchery, plethora, wiki, numinous, wormwood, scribe, gelded, mithridate, orthogonal, jaculiferous, jaculate, jactitation and 415 more...
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Quenelles of Random Palavery
More randomly-garnered terms from the world of words that don't quite yet fit into my other lists.
Goddidit, barcelona, filigrain, good-natured, ill-natured, half-bit, endosome, underplaying, parotid, denormalization, sleightgeist, wheezing and 2334 more...
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short-term parking
A halfway home for new words until they find their true list.
apophlegmatic, phlegethon, phlegmagogue, phlegmon, blenny, blennorhagic, blepharism, ankyloblepharon, lavacultophilia, balneotherapy, balneophile, clyster and 71 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for tzedakah.
sionnach charity towards others; altruism; the behavior of the good Samaritan would fall under this rubric. Jul 24, 2008