for Rambam,Tzedaka is Derech Hasham the golden mean that…

for Rambam,Tzedaka is Derech Hasham the golden mean that human being is obliged to pursue “for this is what our father Avraham thought , his children as it is said, for what I’ve known him that he will command his sons and his household after him, and they will keep the way of HASHEM doing Tzedaka and Mishpat

— from The Mind in the Cockpit · Toward a Renewed Ethic of Jewish Philanthropy edited by Yossi Prager