Sometimes kids do the most amazing things…

237) Gave my daughter some money to purchase a Street Roots paper at the Farmer’s Market.
238) Brought a meal to someone recovering at home from a recent surgery.
239) Received my photos back from last week when my daughter and her friend had their lemonade stand. I had mentioned that I had a dear childhood friend [...]

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Coping with Tragedy – Fighting Terror with Kindness

Today I received an email from Shmuel Greenbaum, I had read his story online and sent him an email. He sent back this article and I promised to post it on my blog. He has turned his tragedy into something very beautiful. If you would like to receive his daily dose of kindness email, feel [...]

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Weekend mitzvahs

231) Picked up litter today on the sidewalk in our neighborhood.
232) Gave tzedakah (charity)  to Doernbecher Children’s Hospital while I was checking out at Costco on Thursday.
233)  I met a women who had lost her husband recently. I recommended two books I thought could be helpful. She had read one and heard of the other [...]

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Ziv Tzedakah fund now Mitzvah Heroes Fund

Today, I received my Ziv Tzedakah annual report and read it cover to cover. If you have read my About this Blog page perhaps you have visited their website. One of my original goals from my 1000 mitzvahs was to raise $10,000 from my mitzvah project to donate to this incredible charity. I want to [...]

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Community related mitzvahs

I have had a fun couple of days this week.
225 & 226) Volunteered to drive for a field trip for a children’s symphony concert yesterday in my son’s class and today I volunteered at the school fun run for my daughter. I got to give out the hats and popsicles. Seems I was suddenly a [...]

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Stop at every lemonade stand….

224) I am the proudest mother today! (Well maybe there are others in the world.)
Anyway, this weekend my daughter and a friend from school had their second annual lemonade stand to raise money for the Oregon Humane Society. My daughter had decided we would have homemade lemonade and cookies and she would also sell [...]

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A mitzvah for a friend

219) Invited an old friend for dinner with her children while her husband was traveling out of the country. She said it was definitely a mitzvah.
220) While they were at our home we did tzedakah (charity) and each child put money in one of our homemade tzedakah cans. I know doing charity with my kids [...]

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This weeks Mitzvahs

Friday afternoon, a couple of recaps for the week…
Had a discussion with my daughter about the blood drive mitzvah. She’s nine. She said, “Mommy there are like 1000 other mitzvahs you can do, so you don’t have to do one that makes you uncomfortable.” Phew, I guess I am not going to volunteer for that [...]

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Doing a mitzvah that makes you uncomfortable…

213) Attended services and gave tzedakah.
214) Volunteered as a personal shopper at Dress For Success.
215) Waved a driver on a cell phone to merge in front of me.
Today I had an ah-ha moment. I was at synagogue when I saw a sign for the upcoming blood drive. I am terribly squeamish about blood and have [...]

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Mother’s Day weekend mitzvahs

212) Donated a bag of food to the Oregon Food Bank mail carriers drive.
213) At dinner last night I found a mistake in our bill and let the waitress know so she could correct it. I counted that as a mitzvah once before this year so I will count this one as well.
Today was Mother’s [...]

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