Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!godot!ima!inmet!rosen From: rosen@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Orphaned Response Message-ID: <2020@inmet.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 01:05:57 EST Article-I.D.: inmet.2020 Posted: Wed Mar 6 01:05:57 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Mar-85 19:18:41 EST Lines: 11 Nf-ID: #R:whuxlm:-69500:inmet:22300009:177600:408 Nf-From: inmet!rosen Mar 4 18:26:00 1985 If you have to ask what is wrong with applying taxes as credit against charitable contributions, you are missing the point of tzedaka. Tzedaka (often, though incorrectly, translated as charity) is more accurately defined as justice. It should be given from an understanding of the importance of, need to, and obligation to help other Jews. It should not be viewed as a trap, to find loopholes out of.