One morning, a member of our shul was urgently looking for a local place to hold an important ZOOM meeting for work. Another member of the shul happily let him share his own office area, even though it was a "manic busy Monday". Baruch Hashem the Zoom meeting was successful.
I was davening in my minyon and noticed a child (under bar mitzvah) davening with us. Several times during the davening he went to the front row and took a tissue from the "public" box of tissues. That eventually ran out and as he was leaving he asked to have one of mine. The next [...]
I was in class playing a game—not “tag” but similar—with my friends when I took out my 5x5x5 Rubik’s cube, and “Moshe” knocked it out of my hand and a piece cracked off! The Rebbe said that because we were playing a “tag” game he was not sure if “Moshe” was responsible to pay. I [...]
We invited a single Russian lady to our Shabbos table for lunch, but as I was singing “Shalom Aleichem” with the children on Friday night, she knocked on the door. Apparently, dinner versus lunch had gotten lost in the translation. My wife and I really wanted to spend a quieter Friday night with the kids, [...]
I was busy doing a bunch of intricate errands, and a small child came over to share some excitement in his day. My impulse was to ask him to come back later, but I saw how much he wanted to share his story with me, that I dropped what I was doing to give him [...]
I took my grandson to buy a pair of shoes at the mall on Erev Shabbos and then as a bonus, I bought him a drink at one of those "Everything For 5 shekel" take-away stores. There was one girl taking the money (and being a bit pressured by the long queue) and a lad making [...]
I went to a women's program in Ramat Beit Shemesh and was introduced to another woman, who poured out her heart to me about how she was struggling with her almost 30 year old son who still lived at home and made day to day life for her and her husband very difficult. I had a [...]
I heard of an elderly woman who needed to run some errands in the shopping center, but was unable to get there easily. I usually don't go there, but when I needed to go for an errand, I remembered her situation, called her up and offered to take her. She was surprised by my impromptu call, [...]
I read that there was a mourner on our street, but I was very nervous about going there because I feared there would not be a minyon (there wasn’t one the day before). So at Mincha time I began walking towards Ahavas Shalom. Then I saw a fellow congregant heading the other way and I [...]
Two hours before Shabbos I went to say Mazel Tov to my neighbor whose daughter just got married, but to my surprise I found the new Kallah in the kitchen struggling to prepare food for her own sheva brochos! Her mother was unavailable to cook due to a family emergency. I immediately asked her what [...]
