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    Sometimes Good Things Just Happen

    April 4, 2008

    April 04, 2008

    Sometimes Good Things Just Happen

    Sometimes things happen in the strangest of ways and good things come about with little or no real planning. Through a series of coincidences, Rabbi Adam Feldman and I were in touch with Yitz Feigenbaum at Beit Hayeled in Israel at about the same time (Beit Hayeled is a very special small home where kids who are removed from their parents by the courts have a chance to live in a loving, warm and supportive environment under the watchful care of Yitz and Irit Zucker who work together in this endeavor) …Rabbi Feldman mentioned to Yitz that he was collecting some tzedakah money from his congregants and would send it to Beit Hayeled for any needs they might have. Since it was right before Pesach, Yitz mentioned that clothing for the holiday and for the spring and summer was very much needed for some of the kids. When we learned this, I challenged Rabbi Feldman by offering a matching grant of up to $500 for any funds he might be able to send to Beit Hayeled. Sure enough, the congregation raised $650 which was matched by $500 from the Good People Fund and Yitz’s kids got what they needed to greet Spring in some beautiful new clothes.

    A short time later, we received the following email from Yitz which says better than anything we can think of, just how important our joint efforts were….

    Dear Rabbi Feldman & Naomi,

    Just this morning Irit and I came back from visiting some of our kids who are on a short vacation and we took one boy to lunch at the mall. After lunch we went with him to the "Golf " clothes store and he picked out a nice new white shirt for the Chag. Irit in the meantime went and picked up three new outfits for the three sisters who…will not be going home at all for Pesach. We got back from the mall about two hours ago and I just received the following SMS message from the oldest sister – she wrote: "Yitz!! Really thank you so much for all the clothes!! You really made me so happy…Chag Sameach :)"All the exclamation points are her’s but I think the smiley at the end belongs to you guys.Todah Rabah & Chag Sameach!

    Yitz

    Sometimes doing mitzvahs is almost too easy!

    Filed under: Good News Update

    Kvod Hamet

    March 28, 2008

    March 28, 2008

    Kvod Hamet

    Our friend Sue Halpern acts as our "eyes and ears" down on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi where Katrina ravaged land and lives almost three years ago. We can always count on Sue to let us know where a little help is needed. Sure enough-today’s email from Sue alerted us to the fact that an elderly woman living in Biloxi had just died and her community was seeking funds to provide her with a modest but respectful funeral since neither she nor her few remaining relatives had the means to underwrite the service and burial. How fitting that our first distribution of tzedakah would go to this very sacred mitzvah…Mrs. T. would have a proper burial and we would fulfill the mitzvah of Kvod Hamet. This feels good…real good.

    Filed under: Good News Update

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