Tzedakah
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Tzedakah is a Hebrew word meaning "righteousness", but commonly used to signify charity. This concept of "charity" differs from the modern Western understanding of "charity". The latter is typically u
Tzedakah box (Pushke), Charleston, 1820, silver, National Museum of American Jewish History
Tzedakah motif on a Jewish gravestone. Jewish cemetery in Otwock (Karczew-Anielin).
Puskhes in Bnei Brak, Israel
Tzedakah pouch and coins on fur-like padding
Mishneh Torah
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The Mishneh Torah, also known as Sefer Yad ha-Hazaka, is a code of Rabbinic Jewish religious law authored by Maimonides. The Mishneh Torah was compiled between 1170 and 1180 CE, while Maimonides was l
Maimonides (artist's conceptual drawing)
A page of a medieval Jerusalem Talmud manuscript, from the Cairo Geniza
A Torah scroll
The single scroll of the arm-tefillin