{"id":101,"date":"2014-05-07T21:26:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T02:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/palmettorabbi.com\/?p=101"},"modified":"2014-05-07T21:29:04","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T02:29:04","slug":"a-gift-of-tzedakah-perfect-even-for-the-girl-or-anyone-who-has-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/palmettorabbi.com\/?p=101","title":{"rendered":"A Gift of Tzedakah: Perfect for the girl (or anyone) who has everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reformjudaism.org\/tzedakah-box-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reformjudaism.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/article_inline_image\/public\/tzedakah2.jpg?itok=diCAZiIV\" alt=\"tzedakah box\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s May \u2013 time for Mother\u2019s Day, graduation, and, looking ahead, Father\u2019s Day. The question always comes up: What should I\/we get?<\/p>\n<p>This is a perennial question &#8211; asked not only for Mom, Dad, and grad &#8211; but throughout the year: for the birthday, the promotion, the bar\/bat mitzvah, the wedding, the baby shower, the (fill in other special event here).<\/p>\n<p>More and more I am turning to a traditional (and meaningful) Jewish custom: a <a title=\"Tzedakah\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reformjudaism.org\/tzedakah-box-0\">tzedakah <\/a>contribution in honor of the recipient.<\/p>\n<p>When a donor makes a tzedakah contribution in someone&#8217;s honor, the organization receives a contribution, and it sends an acknowledgement card to the recipient letting him know about the\u00a0 gift that was made in his name.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few reasons why I think this type of tribute gift is worth considering:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s always a good time to give tzedakah and take a step towards making the world a better place.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Jewish tradition encourages us to make tzedakah a regular habit. For instance, some people like to make a contribution every Friday before Shabbat. When we regularly honor or celebrate family, friends, and colleagues with tzedakah contributions, we also weave the habit of tzedakah into our lives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A tzedakah contribution is a meaningful gift. It\u2019s always the right size, never goes bad, and will never gather dust on the shelf. Additionally, we can choose a tzedakah organization that matches the interests of the recipient, increasing the significance of our gift.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>We can inspire others to give tzedakah. The tribute card sent with our gift might inspire the recipient to think about giving tzedakah, and she might then continue the practice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s May \u2013 time for Mother\u2019s Day, graduation, and, looking ahead, Father\u2019s Day. The question always comes up: What should I\/we get? This is a perennial question &#8211; asked not only for Mom, Dad, and grad &#8211; but throughout the year: for the birthday, the promotion, the bar\/bat mitzvah, the wedding, the baby shower, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[25,22,26,24,23],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrate","category-jewish-living","tag-fathers-day","tag-gift","tag-graduation","tag-mothers-day","tag-tzedakah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/palmettorabbi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/palmettorabbi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/palmettorabbi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/palmettorabbi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/palmettorabbi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/palmettorabbi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"http:\/\/palmettorabbi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/palmettorabbi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/palmettorabbi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/palmettorabbi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}