A Silver Lining In A Dark Time
עולם חסד יבנה
Every Thursday my mother is at work and my father is working at home. I help my sister get setup with her phone conferences.
Kalman Guttentag
Many times my siblings get bored and just sit around. On one Sunday my cousins came over we took some extra wood rope and branches from my backyard and made a succah then me and my cousins started learning Masechtes succah together with making videos of our succah and now my cousin is in the Pirkei Avos Program (Avrumi Engelberg)
Yosef Meir Friedman
In Baltimore there is a free food program for everyone, and they had a special time for people to deliver the food for people who can't go out of their house, and I gave the food to my Rebbe. He was very happy to eat it.
Yisrael Yaacov Salazar
Now there's no yeshiva, so I'm home much more and I help my family much more. I carry boxes of groceries that my father brings inside, and I unpack them mostly myself. I also share a lot of my toys with my younger siblings to keep them happy and busy when there's no school. And, I am teaching the alphabet to my youngest sister. I also help my mother in the kitchen a lot, and I bake cakes for Shabbos myself.
Shuey Berger
The Sunday after Lag Ba'omer I went to my handicapped aunt who had Corona. My older brother drove me and decided to stay for an hour. In that hour while wearing a mask, we built a lamp with three shelves underneath. When my brother left, my aunt and I talked for a while and then tried unsuccessfully to fix a drawer whose front kept falling off. After that, I swept and washed the floor. We talked more until my mother came to take me home.
Yitzi Stender
Tani Kates and his brother made and completed a fundraiser for Ahavas Yisroel in Baltimore. They started a walkathon (around the block only, and with proper social distancing, of course), and got a variety of sponsors to give money for each lap completed. Together, they were able to raise over $400 for the organization, using their free time and energy to do so.
Tani Kates
Mordechai goes with me every day to pick up lunches and deliver them to neighbors who can't get out. We sometimes are in the car for over 2 hours! And he does it with a smile!
Mordechai Adler
I’m so happy I live near my yeshiva. Before Shavous, my yeshiva gave out thousands of Shavous boxes full of food for families in the neighborhood. I volunteered to help pack the boxes and I worked from 730 am until 1015 pm! Of course, I stopped to listen to my conference. My menahel was there and he even let a few of us go inside to listen from a real classroom!
I was happy to have the chance to help my yeshiva and all the people getting boxes.
Zev Stilerman
My Rebbe dropped off a package at my house with all kinds of goodies inside. One thing was a bag of challah rolls (it’s something like a joke in our class). That Friday I was helping to drop off food packages for people that need for shabbos. One lady that we were picking up food from forgot to put in challah so I remembered that rebbe just that week gave us challah rolls that we put in our freezer! We stopped off at home on the way to the house we were dropping off the food in and I gave away my challah in the package that was missing it!
Yitzchak Schlaff
Every week on Friday at around 6:45 when things start to get busy, I run a Tish on zoom for my younger cousins, 7-year-old boy twins, and their 5-year-old brother. My aunt just had a baby in March and they also have a 2-year-old boy so their house is quite busy.
I sing Zmiros with them and I ask them Parsha questions and give out points. When they get 100 points they earn a prize. I deliver the prize to their mailbox because they live super close.
This gives my aunt and uncle a little help during the busy Erev Shabbos time and the boys are involved in bringing in shabbos in a special way and they love it!
Mordechai Brand
My mother has a friend who is in a wheelchair and therefore she is homebound. I went on Yom Tov to her when it was three days long and her family was very nervous about her being home her self so it made them feel better that someone went to her to make sure she was okay and to talk to her and keep her company.
Moshe Packer
I went to my grandparents' house to cheer them up when they were still in quarantine and spoke to them from their backyard.
It made them smile.
Dovi Lefkowitz