Tzedakah/Tzedakah: Reward and Importance

General Reward and Punishment

The embarrassment felt by a person who needs to beg: Berachot 6b; Chagigah 5a

Failure to give tzedakah is compared to idolatry: Ketuvot 68a

Testing Gd to see if He will reward tzedakah: Taanit 9a

Jerusalem will be redeemed through Tzedakah: Shabbat 139a

The main reward for keeping Fast Days is in giving Tzedakah to support paupers afterward: Berachot 6b (See Rashi)

One is repaid for tzedakah in accordance with the effort invested: Succah 49b

Tzedakah saves one's life: Shabbat 156b

Tzedakah preserves one's wealth: Ketuvot 66b

Tzedakah increases one's wealth: Taanit 8b-9a; Gittin 7a

Tzedakah overturns a Divine judgment for death: Rosh HaShanah 16b

Tzedakah saves people from Hell: Gittin 7a

Reward for giving in private: Shabbat 104a

Reward for giving to someone who really doesn't need it: Bava Kama 16b

Reward for giving in the hope of getting a specific prayer answered: Rosh haShanah 4a; Pesachim 8a

Your reward will come until your lips wear out from saying "Enough!": Makkot 23b

A pious man who gave tzedakah and merited great wealth in the coming year: Berachot 18b

Punishment for failure to give as much tzedakah as one could: Ketuvot 66b-67a

Punishment for giving tzedakah non-altruistically: Ketuvot 66b-67a

Giving tzedakah in the hope of getting a specific prayer answered: Pesachim 8a; Rosh HaShanah 4a

If a poor person approaches a wealthy person and asks him for support, and the wealthier person refuses, then Gd will make the poor person wealthy and make the wealthy person poor: Temurah 16a



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