I noticed a couple wandering on the street in Ramat Beit Shemesh, confused as they tried to locate a particular address using a GPS map on their phone. I helped them locate the address, and made two people from out-of-town feel a bit more welcome in our community.
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While shopping I overheard another customer request from the service attendant to reach a box of food from the high shelf. The service attendant responded, " the other box on top of this will fall and I can't manage to help you." I quickly offered to help using my height as an advantage and successfully [...]
While walking through the park between Dolev and Refaim at the 8 am rush hour I noticed young girls screeching and hurrying away from the path while others were fearful to enter the path. I approached slowly and saw a big tomcat near the bushes, rustling around in the leaves. I calmed the approaching girls [...]
I noticed that the neighbor's children were chasing a cat with a collar and bell on it. To save the cat I went over and retrieved it. There was a name and address on the collar. I called the owner and returned the cat to him.
The first day after being inspired by the Rav's suggestion of doing a random chesed, I felt disappointed that no opportunity had come my way for an act of chesed! I happened upon a young lady I know who lives in Gimmel and shared the Rav's words with her. She was enthusiastic and said to [...]
I met a lady in the lobby of the Maccabee Health Center who was confused as to how the new computer "kiosk" works for obtaining a number for the nurse, lab, etc, because she has difficulty with Hebrew. I helped her, and she said, "I now know why you were at Maccabee this morning: To [...]
Help prevent Random Acts of Terror by performing Random Acts of Chesed. Share your stories of Chesed with the kehilla by sending them to chesed@ahavasshalom.org. Alternatively, you can write them on paper and place them in the “SUGGESTIONS BOX” near the front door. (names will always be withheld unless specifically requested.) Stories will be published [...]
Mr. Reuven of our shul is a recent immigrant to Israel (oleh). He had a job interview and needed to learn some technical terms in Hebrew which are used in his field of expertise. Mr. Shimon of our shul works in the same field as Mr. Reuven. Mr. Shimon spent 20 minutes of his precious [...]
Date: 24-Oct-2015 11 Cheshvan 5776 Location: Ahavas Shalom Attending: Lev Seltzer, Micha Kushner, Yonah Kauffman, Ari Waldman, Avi Rosenberg Absent: Aryeh Beer, Alan Rubinstein Summary by Micha Kushner Air Conditioning There will be no A/C put on automatically during the week any more. It will only be set to go on during Shabbos. If someone [...]
