Thanks so much, Sophie, for this very rich and helpful text!
I’d be very interested to hear more about this claim: “In Judaism, “tzedaka” is the idea of donating a certain portion of one’s income to /effective/ charities on a regular basis.” Is there anyone specific I could ask or anything specific I could read on the relation of tzedaka and effectiveness?
[Two minor corrections: I think the reference to Eric Gregory’s work is missing. And, churches going back to Wesley (such as the United Methodist Church) have much more than half a million members—a pity they don’t follow Wesley’s advice....]
Thanks so much, Sophie, for this very rich and helpful text!
I’d be very interested to hear more about this claim: “In Judaism, “tzedaka” is the idea of donating a certain portion of one’s income to /effective/ charities on a regular basis.” Is there anyone specific I could ask or anything specific I could read on the relation of tzedaka and effectiveness?
[Two minor corrections: I think the reference to Eric Gregory’s work is missing. And, churches going back to Wesley (such as the United Methodist Church) have much more than half a million members—a pity they don’t follow Wesley’s advice....]
I was curious about this too—I haven’t seen tzedaka connected with effectiveness before.
(Yes, also noticed that churches descending from Wesley have a lot more people than mentioned here—there are around 10 million Methodists.)