"Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential part of living a just life."

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Source : Peter Singer (2010). “The Life You Can Save: How to play your part in ending world poverty”, p.21, Pan Macmillan

Peter Singer

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“Share the Gospel. According to the Bible, it is every believer's privilege and responsibility to share the Gospel. If we understand what lies ahead for those who do not know Christ, there will be a sense of urgency in our witness.”
“They can't find my house now because I keep it very quiet where I live.”
“Seek by reading and you will find by meditating. Knock by praying, and it will be opened to you in contemplation.”
“Even in the fiercest uproar of our stormy passions, conscience, though in her softest whispers, gives to the supremacy of rectitude the voice of an undying testimony.”
“Finance that only talks to itself & deals with each other becomes socially useless”
“Bush to USSS: 'We need to get back to Wash. We don't need some tin horn terrorist to scare us off.'”
“My criticism hasn't necessarily been informed by the critics I've read. The conversations I've had with friends and fellow musicians have shaped my thinking more than the work of any critic.”
“I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.”

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