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Word: Tzedakah
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
from Hebrew ṣĕḏāqāh ‘righteousness’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
tsɛˈdɒka
Dialects: British English
Definition:
(among Jewish people) charitable giving, typically seen as a moral obligation
Short Definition:(among Jewish people) charitable giving
Examples:- one common form of tzedakah was to allocate a portion of the harvest for the poor
