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Pashuteh Yid
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WIY, I respectfully disagree. It is not just labels. Go to a Camp Sternberg and see how much love the healthy campers give to those who are not well. Go to a Camp HASC. Schools have chesed programs to take care of the elderly. Tomchei Shabbos is staffed by young wonderful kids who work many hours after school packing the boxes. Then, there are many young adults who drive and deliver.

Today there is much more awareness of loshon hara. There is more of an awareness that good things are a matanah from the RBSH rather than kochi v’otzem yadi. There is an awareness that we must take care of the poor and unfortunate, and not think of them as lazy bums who dare not enter my home.

Where I live, a certain young giyores had no money to make a wedding. A (modern) school took it upon themselves to host the wedding in the school and make all the preparations so the chosson and kalla wouldn’t have to worry about a thing.

There are bar mitzvah kids who donate all their gifts to needy children in Israel or to victims of terror. Some give up their big seudah altogether to give the money to those less fortunate.

In my kids’ school, there are children who wheel their handicapped classmates the entire day and make them feel a part of everything that goes on.

Somehow or other, the lesson of menschlachkeit seems to be getting across.