DEUT775 Far from reducing social life to a series of accidental happenings and to policies of expediency, Judaism raises the whole gamut of human conduct to God and to those moral values whereby alone we can best serve Him. In describing man as a free moral agent Judaism parts company with Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, as well as with Christianity, who regarded wealth as immoral, even considering poverty as a virtue. The logic of Judaism refuses to share the belief that the desire for possessions is in itself immoral, especially if the desire be under control, and the possessions used for worthy purposes. Wealth entails duties which give it divine sanction. The protection of the weak by the strong ennobles the character of the protector. Charity is regarded not as a concession on the part of the rich, but as the practice of what is only fit and proper. The Hebrew term for charity -- Tsedakah -- literally means the right of the poor to share in the good things which God has bestowed on the more fortunate. "Thou shall surely give him ... because that for this thing the Lord thy God will bless thee..." [this verse].