Reply To: Hedonism in honor of Chanuka, to benefit Tzedaka

Tzedaka can be use for physical reason and not spiritual. There is the argument between Beis Shamai and Beis Hilel how to light Chanukah candles. The Beis Shamai says to diminish it every day as the parei hachag by reducing the influence of physical, material of Helinistic doctrine and the Beis Hilel says to elevate the spiritual. One will automatically reduce the physical as we cannot have עשה טוב, to do good if we don’t have סור מרע, turn away from bad first.