Reply To: Very Disheartened

Midwesterner – I assume we were at the same collection place and I hear what you are saying. However I did see a lot of ppl bringing things with tags. In fact they looked like they had just come from shopping at the mall or target. What a truly amazing mitzvah!

I personally (my family included) were not doing early spring cleaning as we had just recently gotten rid of stuff (in fact,a lot of unusable things were thrown out – I would never give certain things away for someone else to use or wear if it’s in such bad condition). I must say, some of the things we brought to the collection place, we had to think twice as to whether or not we were still going to want them. But we decided it’s more important to do a mitzvah – Please know – I am NOT trying to sound holy by saying that. Doing a mitzvah with gaiva sort of cancels itself out IMHO. I’m just making a point (not so much to you – but more at another poster who is bent on criticizing and insulting me). Also we are not in a position to go out and buy new things so we did the best we could.

Anyway, it’s amazing how many ppl had such wonderful intentions and wanted to help out in such a horrible crisis. It was hearwarming to see so many ppl there donating and volunteering their time to help out.