A small box that turns giving into a daily habit, the pushke.
A tzedakah box, a pushke in Yiddish, is the small container kept in a Jewish home for collecting coins to give to those in need. Dropping in a bit before Shabbat or whenever the impulse strikes turns the value of tzedakah into a small, physical, everyday habit rather than an abstraction.
As a gift it carries real meaning without asking much of the recipient. For a bar or bat mitzvah it plants the practice of giving right at the moment they step into adult responsibility; for a new home it seeds a household habit of generosity from day one.
Boxes range from simple tin to gorgeous handcrafted ceramic and metal. A beautiful one sits out where it gets used, quietly reminding everyone who passes it that giving is part of the furniture of a good Jewish home.
A bar or bat mitzvah stepping into adult responsibility, a new home, or anyone you want to gift the daily habit of generosity.
Judaica shops, synagogue gift shops, and ceramicists and metalworkers on Etsy who make handcrafted pushkes.