Last night (May 10, 2017) an energetic and committed group of individuals met as part of the Amichai Community to brainstorm ideas to engage in acts of loving kindness within and beyond our community.

Our discussion focused on two separate areas: caring for people within our community and reaching out beyond. We welcome your suggestions and involvement.

Thank you.
The Amichai Tikkun Olam Caring Committee
May 11, 2016

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If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
But if I am only for myself, who am I?
If not now, when?
(R. Hillel, Ethics of the Fathers, 1:14)

Dayenu is a word we chant every Passover during which we express our gratitude for God’s deliverance of us from slavery and hardship. This many centuries later many still are not as fortunate.
 
One of the ways we express our gratitude for our lives is by helping others through acts of kindness, by giving of ourselves and our resources to those in need. We continually strive to make the world a better place through acts of Tikkun Olam by healing a world sorely in need of it.
 
R. Rabbah once said, Even though our ancestors have left us a scroll of Torah, it is our religious duty to write one for ourselves…(Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 21b).
 
Helping others is one of the essential ways we write our own Torah scrolls, by living our lives leaving an imprint on others.
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