Charity is an act of love, kindness and compassion. It is also a duty, a privilege, a right, an act of justice, a humbling experience (even more for the giver than for the recipient) and a badge of identity... Here are 40 articles, essays and stories on the what, the why and the how of tzedakah:
From the Sages:
The Child and the Slave
Six Hundred Dinars Minus Six
The Snake in the Wall
Maimonides' Eight Levels of Charity
Insights:
The Myth of Charity
by Yanki Tauber
The Heresy of Kindness
by Tzvi Freeman
The One Dollar Life
by Yanki Tauber
The Czar's Rubles
by Tuvia Bolton
Pushkah Power
by Tzvi Freeman
Giving is the Easy Part
by Yanki Tauber
Who Needs Nudniks?
by Yanki Tauber
Don't Be Fair
by Yanki Tauber
In-Depth Essays:
The Cosmology of Giving
by Yaakov Brawer
The Lunar Files
by Tzvi Freeman
The Loving Friends
by Yaakov Brawer
Partner
by Yanki Tauber
Stories:
The Mirror
by Chanah Zuber-Scharfstien
Love in a Heartbeat
by Blair Grubb
Letter to Anya
by Jay Litvin
The Miser's Slippers
by Shoshannah Brombacher
Israel Goy
by Menachem Brod
The Blanket
by Howard Schultz
Grace After Meals
by Wendy Dickstein
The Rusty Penny
by Tuvia Bolton
A Rebbe Goes Shopping
by Yrachmiel Tilles
The Extra Matzah
by Yisroel Susskind
The Cigarette Beggar
by Yanki Tauber
Forty-Three Rubles
by Herschel Finman
Popular Names
by Yrachmiel Tilles
The Unpopular Tzaddik
by Yrachmiel Tilles
The Holy Beggars of Sefad
by Chanah Besser
The Jewish ABC
by Tuvia Bolton
The Meeting
by Yanki Tauber
The Kol Nidrei Drunk
by Yanki Tauber
The Wheel of Life
by Shoshannah Brombacher
Hard to Swallow
by Yrachmiel Tilles
Road Work
by Chessed Halberstam
Audio/Video:
Jono's Lemonade Stand
a short film by Dovid Taub and Jonathan Goorvich
The Deed
a video presentation by Chabad of Toronto
Charity, the Priorities
an audio class by Nissan Dovid Dubov
