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Great article. Try submitting it to Reader’s Digest.
very nice story. gives a little insight into what it means to care for others. where did you take it from? did you write it yourself?
It’s not smart to submit something you posted anonymously online to a print publication because it can lead to all sorts of problems unless you publish your screen name with it.
That being said, it’s a great story. Someone should bump it every couple hours to keep it near the top.
You should write a version applicable to a Yiddish setting.
Wow! Bomb!
Nice article. I was sure you took it from somewhere!can’t believe it’s your own work!
Bomb,
A really powerful piece, although I don’t identify with the characters in your narrative (B”H).
Sorry Bomb- didn’t mean anything!
What I’m saying is that I never knew you’re a professional!
Bombmaniac:
I immediately recognized the writing style from your posts! This post was more sophisticated, though. I enjoyed reading it, and the message hit home.
Care to share what inspired this?
Bombmaniac -There are a lot of people in the frum community that are suffering and are too proud to sit out on the stoop for everybody to notice. I hope this brings some awareness to people about the less fortunate amongst us first and goyim second.
bombmaniac you really have talent. I always throw something to the needy. Say even a 1$ or whatever I can. Sometimes part of my groceries I am shlepping like a banana. I feel terrible walking past a sleeping “bum” in a blanket on the subway floor in winter, just trying to keep warm. Sometimes when I know we are going to pass a certain subway station downtown and pass numerous such sights, I tell my daughter oh lets bring extra sandwiches to leave by their side. you can never know how this soul ended up in this terrible circumstance, and never the less its a child of Hashem. No one should turn a blind eye to another’s suffering!
bombmaniac, the Jewish Press pays its writers that write in the teens and twenties talk section of their paper. In case you ever wanted to write for a Jewish publication too…
I rememeber when my sister needed to pay a bumch of people some small cash, she wrote a nice piece, sent it in, and she was debt free! (and her friends were happy they got their money 🙂
Bomb:
I agree with Keepingbusy613. You can publish to a Jewish magazine if you like and get money together with it if you need a little extra cash or even if you don’t. but it is really a very good idea.
I have read this amazing article elsewhere. I can not remember which publication it was or which email I have received. Keep writing and make a difference to other people’s lives!
My very good friend is like frumladygit. She hands out sandwiches, muffins, hot coffee etc to people who are down and out. One never knows who they really are.
On the nights of the seder, when we open our hearts’ to many more guests, one of our son’s goes to a meeting place outside a kosher bakery on a main road and brings home lost souls that have no where to go for the sedarim. For whatever the reason, they have lost contact with their families and are real nebechs. One year, our son brought home a young man (among many others), with very long, dirty scruffy hair and torn trousers, with filthy nails, and not very clean with body odors. Really uncooth. For an absolute second, I was looking around our beautiful seder table, where he can sit and next to whom, when my Father Z’TL (who was a camp survivor) and spoke a heavy-accented English, said with the most beautiful smile and awave of the hand, “come Tatelah, sit next to me! I am the Zaide and I will show you what to do”! My Father Z’TL, (I am his siamese twin (in facial and charachter features, and we thought alike), was the most patient and sever panim yafot type of guy with the most bitachon and emunah. He saw my hesitancy for a second and saved the day. My Father gave him a cappel and spoke to him all night, and explained everything patiently what to do when. This guy was not asked any questions to embarass him, or why he had no contact with his family.
My Father Z’TL got very ill in the summer, and was nifter in Tevet. The following Pesach, after I had lit the licht and was crying buckets, all the menfolk in shul and I was alone with my Mom A’H, there was a knock on the door. I went to answer the door and a young man with nicely cut hair, nice trousers, sports jacket and a kippah was standing there. He asked for The Zaide (Z’TL), and if he could sit next to him. I did not recognize him, but told him he is more than welcome to join us for the sedarim but, unfortunately the Zaide Z’TL passed away. This was the same young man who came the year before. He soon came every Shabbos, and then he decided to go to Yeshiva in Israel and he became frum. He has B’H married and is raising a beautiful B’H family with his ezer kinegdo.
We don’t know the ripple effect that anything we might do will have on the next person.
May we all be zocher to do many mitzvos and maasim tovim and be able to bring back all our brothers’ and sisters’ to do the avodas Hashem!
Best bubby, I’m speechless! Wow!!!
Yes, Ihave read this great story already. I will try to remember
whre and try to get back to you through the CR, bli neder!
bomb: If you wrote it a week ago, how can you appreciate Best Bubby showing you where she read what you allegedly wrote a week ago, from some time ago?
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