"They’d felt so helpless by not being able to join our simchah and now they had something tangible they could do for us"
One thing that I find overwhelming about Zoom is keeping track of who’s in a meeting.
When I attend a Zoom simchah, I try to take screenshots of the room, the participants’ list, and the mazel tov comments in the chat so the baalei simchah can see it later if they didn’t record it or just want to see who “came.”
—Chaia F.
When I had a baby in Israel, my family across the ocean was very upset that they were unable to fuss over us. So they took care of us in the only way they could — by feeding us! My family had meals delivered from local restaurants, and they kept it up for a full month! We felt their love the entire time.
—Esti M.
We made a bar-mitzvah and prepared beautiful “kiddush” packages, including mezonos and l’chayim, a copy of the pshetel, and a printed Minchah-Maariv booklet with our son’s name on it, for our family and friends who could not attend.
—Faigy Grossman
We weren’t able to join our nephew’s out- of-town chasunah. Usually the extended family, all the aunts and uncles, make a joint family sheva brachos. This time instead of spending money on that, we joined together and bought the young couple a very practical Bosch food processor and mixer, with all attachments. They were delighted.
—Debby Weisbart
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