Hopefully, along with continuing to bring in food, and make donations, and help out in the community, we will also continue this mitzvah of friendship and fellowship within our own CBI family.
Religious school parents got to work with seniors kids got to work with adults of different ages, children became teachers and leaders. Everyone brought good ideas and different skills, and as things were pasted and packaged and schelped to vehicles for delivery, folks got to work together and got to know each other. Some folks who perhaps hadn’t even planned to volunteer, found themselves invited, drafted or almost dragged to participate, and your Social Action trustee Susan Schwartz is so grateful that each of you stepped up to the task. Not only did some projects serve other generations, but our own volunteers ranged in age from pre-schoolers to senior citizens. We experienced some wonderful intergenerational communication. The mitzvah of caring for the elderly and those who may be ill was the basis for the activities performed by 6 th and 7 th graders who sang and chatted with seniors at Cottages of Carmel, and by all the students who made cards for the Caring Committee to be included with deliveries to folks unable to leave their homes.īeyond the numbers and deeds themselves, we also had great sharing, and often among groups that don’t always get chance to work together. Our students were taught about good nutrition and how their work cooking for I-Help, or packing rice and beans would help alleviate hunger. At each mitzvah project station, our adult volunteers taught the students why and how they were serving a need and following a commandment. We were reminded that mitzvah means “to command” and that a commandment might be defined as something God tell us to do. On Mitzvah Day, we also learned a lot: Our third grade class prepared a presentation for all grades illustrating the meaning of mitzvoth and how each of our projects represented particular mitzvoth or commandments.
#Joining hands interfaith plus#
While there is always more that can be done, on Mitzvah Day 2016 we accomplished a lot! By the numbers: 800 lbs of rice and beans packaged and transported to Rice, Plus for donation to the needy in our community, over 75 toiletry bags assembled and delivered to shelters, 500 book plates placed in new High Holiday prayer books, a four course meal for I-Help prepared by our religious school students under the direction of our in-resident Chef (and CBI President) Malina Breaux, over 25 place mats hand decorated for the I-Help dinner, and “too many bags to count” of donated clothing for men, women and children sorted and delivered to Joining Hands Interfaith Resale Shop. More electronics to donate? We can get you in touch with Loaves, Fishes and Computers. Envelopes for monetary donations for both The Food Bank of Monterey County and for the Jewish food project Mazon are available on the table by the gift shop. If you didn’t get a chance to participate, or just want to continue to do good works, Food Bank collection barrels are still in the foyer near the office, ready to receive your donations of non-perishables food. Big thanks go to all the many hard working volunteers who made Mitzvah Day 2016 so much fun and such a success. Mitzvah Day 2016 saw activity and good works in every corner of CBI, and in the community. Mitzvah Day 2017 was a big success and Mitzvah Day 2018 is coming.
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