DEUT750 The literature on zedakah relentlessly observes that need cannot be quantified on the basis of objective criteria. An individual's needs cannot be determined through calculating the objective minimum that any person might require to be sustained. The sources refuse to "objectify" another person's need. Rather, each person is perceived as an individual with subjective, individualistic, and even idiosyncratic needs. The demands of his or her personality, past experience, self-respect, and personal dignity are never overlooked. The goal in Jewish social welfare – – not always attainable, though never forgotten--is to provide the individual that which is "sufficient for his need" (this verse).