We gave them $100. They made someone’s day. 9 stories
Lying in the hospital awaiting surgery for a slipped disc wasn’t fun by any account. But I did get to catch up on my reading, a luxury usually buried under my varied responsibilities. I flipped through Family First in an effort to distract myself from the pain, and that’s when I saw it. Make Her Day.
And I knew exactly what I needed to do.
Our family made aliyah when I was sixteen, and we grew very close from the experience. My mother’s greatest joy is spending time with me and my siblings. She works full-time as an OT, and in addition, she’s my grandmother’s caretaker. She would never hear of putting her mother, an ailing Holocaust survivor, into a nursing home.
“This is my zechus,” she says. “This is my mitzvah.”
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