Tzedakah/ unclean money
Question
I have been doing tzedakah. With a passion in my heart and in secret nobody knows I'm putting in the envelopes of money slipping it into the doorways. I have burned in my heart for Hashem to do this for Hashem. Except...I am caught in a snare ...so far the money was gifts and getting it from good places... Now I have started to do exotic dancing and I did not do tzedakah because I am afraid the money is tainted and ill. I don't want to upset Hashem with a dirty offering. I must dance right now to pull myself out of my financial rut. It's always been my emergency go to to get out of ruts fast so I can invest more in other places to try to not ever have to dance again but it seems I cannot stay afloat all the time. Can I do tzedakah with this money. I read somewhere prostitute money is forbidden in the synagogue as an offering. . . I feel I still want to give it to Hashem tho? What do I do and what can I do? Lol I would ask this privately for ten dollars for LOL but I don't know if my money is acceptable!? Oi! Shalom
Answer
Shalom!
Thank you for your question.
I am not familiar with “exotic dancing.”
While it does sound immodest and inappropriate and therefore forbidden. Therefore, you must make immediate and heroic efforts to leave such work, you are permitted to give charity from your income, and you still get reward for doing so.
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