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Hesed Committee
We all need help at one time or another, but never more than when we are ill, or have lost a loved one.
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TBI’S VISIT THE SICK AND HOMEBOUND COMMITTEE (BIKUR HOLIM) will call and visit the sick as well as include them in our minyan prayers (Refuah Shelemah).
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TBI’S BEREAVEMENT COMMITTEE (NIHUM AVEILIM)supports shiva services and minyanim following funeral services.
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TBI’S CHEVRAH KADISHA (HOLY SOCIETY/JEWISH BURIAL SOCIETY) honors the dead in accordance with Jewish tradition, in preparing the deceased for burial.
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TBI’S CONCRETE SERVICES COMMITTEE (TACHLIS) provides concrete services to congregants and their families in times of crisis.
Please notify the office (610-275-8797) of any member needing our support. To request services of Hesed, or to volunteer for any of our committees, please contact the TBI office.
Many thanks for your contributions to TBI’s Hesed Committee.Your generosity enables us to continue our programs.
Latest Hesed News
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January, 2012 Ma'aseem - 1/6/2012
As mentioned in last month's Hesed article, there has been a strong response and effort from the TBI community, helping the Hesed committee. Hesed is a "we" committee. It has been brought to my...
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December, 2011 Ma'aseem - 12/2/2011
First of all, we wish you all a happy Hanukkah and a healthy and happy 2012!
We are having a continual drive through January and February, collecting winter clothing and blankets in...
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October, 2011 Ma'aseem - 10/27/2011
Shalom, fellow congregants! I hope it was an enjoyable summer for all, and that we have a happy, healthy new year ahead.
The past year, especially the past few months, have really...
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September, 2011 Ma'aseem - Hesed Is Here for You - 8/25/2011
HESED IS HERE FOR YOU
We all need help at one time or another, but never more than when we are ill, or have lost a loved one.
TBI'S VISIT THE SICK AND HOMEBOUND COMMITTEE (BIKUR...
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June, 2011 Ma'aseem - Passing the Torch; Keeping the Flame - 5/27/2011
Now that my two years of service as Chairperson of the Hesed Committee are about to come to an end, this will be my last column in Ma'aseem. What a stupendous time this has been for me! I want...
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May, 2011 Ma'aseem - It Takes a Kehillah - 5/4/2011
This month, Hesed features a very important member of its committee, the TBI community. Think about it, without the many folks who comprise TBI, Hesed would not be in existence.
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April, 2011 Ma'aseem - Torah U'Mitzvot - 3/29/2011
I just cannot help but shep naches (kvell)1 from TBI's latest undertaking, the writing of a Torah. How great is that? How many Jews come across a chance to write Torah during their lifetime? ...
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February, 2011 Ma'aseem - Hesed: A Way of Life - 2/9/2011
Last year, this page introduced the entire Hesed Committee to our TBI community. This year, we dig a little deeper, below the surface, by introducing from time to time individual Hesedniks.
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January, 2011 Ma'aseem - Mitzvah Mania and Other Projects - 1/11/2011
So it is January, 2011 -- Happy 'Other' New Year to all!
Has it snowed yet and have we all survived it magnificently?
Writing articles for Ma'aseem a whole...
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January, 2011 Ma'aseem - Tribal Talk - 1/11/2011
For as long as I can remember, we (the Jews) have referred to each other as a "member of the tribe". What is a tribe? It's a group of people, usually somehow related by blood, belief, or some...
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December, 2010 Ma'aseem - More Than a Committee, a way of life - 11/30/2010
One day, in my Melton1 class on Ethics of Jewish Living, the instructor opened the discussion with the question to each of the students, "How are you like Elohim2?" How's that for an attention...
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November, 2010 Ma'aseem - How Generous? - 11/3/2010
Please see box below for a glossary of the Yiddish and Hebrew words in this article.
My mother, z"l, recounted a folktale that circulated in her Litvisheh* shtetl*, about the man...
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October 2010 Ma'aseem - Looking Ahead to a Great 5771 - 9/29/2010
Baruch Ha'Shem for a good 5770. Hesed hopes most sincerely that all TBI'niks, and indeed kol am Israel, have been inscribed for a wonderful, prosperous, peaceful, healthy year and will be blessed...
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September 2010 - Restored, Refreshed, Ready to Take on a New Year! - 9/29/2010
A line of a song remembered from childhood, chanted and danced to the beat of a horah, goes something like this: "Kvar harashnu v'gam zaranu, aval od lo katsarnu!" (We have already plowed and also...
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June, 2010 - Ma'aseem - 7/16/2010
"If you stage it, they will come!" And stage it we did, with much elbow grease and heaps of enthusiasm.
This springtime's Mitzvah Mania revolved primarily around projects for the...
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May, 2010 Ma'aseem - 5/21/2010
New Projects
Hesed is announcing the need for volunteers to help with driving congregants to various medically-related appointments. Although requests for driving services are...
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April, 2010 Ma'aseem - 5/18/2010
HESED AT WORK
From kissing away a child's tears caused by a scraped knee, to sending a crutch to Haiti, to plunking down the cash for building a university hospital, every day we are...
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March, 2010 Ma'aseem - 3/17/2010
Special Appeal for Cold Weather Clothing
It's cold outside. This has been an especially cold winter and thank God most of us at TBI enjoy the comforts of a warm home, food on the...
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February, 2010 Ma'aseem - 1/27/2010
Meet TBI's Hesed Committee
The current Hesed Committee has been operational now for several months, and in this very short time, its ranks have grown and its...
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December, 2009 Ma'aseem - Mitzvah Mania 2009 - 12/4/2009
MITZVAH MANIA 2009
Our "Mitzvah Mania Day Goodie-Baking" on Sunday November 1 was a fulfilling, inspiring, motivating and very important day. A group of us, both adults...
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December, 2009 Ma'aseem - More than a Committee, a Way of Life - 12/4/2009
Still in the spirit of reflection and taking stock, when I received the call for chairing Hesed and accepted as a knee jerk reaction, I found myself thinking later, "Why me? Why now?" In the...
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November, 2009 Ma'aseem Hesed: More than a Committee, a Way of Life - 11/13/2009
For many years, Hesed - the concept and the committee - has flourished at TBI through strong leadership and loving help of dozens (perhaps hundreds) of individuals. I doubt there is anyone in our...
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September, 2009 Ma'aseem - 10/2/2009
As you receive this issue of our synagogue newsletter you will feel a hint of fall in the air and know that Rosh Hashanah will soon be upon us. New beginnings and new opportunities are available...
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November 2008 - 10/30/2008
Mitzvah Mania is here! Since the year 2000, Hesed has been coordinating one or two Mitzvah Days each year. These special days are opportunities for our entire TBI community to come together to...
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June 2008 - 5/30/2008
There is a tradition in academia of giving a "Last Lecture" toward the end of one's career. The purpose of this "Last Lecture" is to provide academics the opportunity to discuss their career as a...
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February 2008 - 2/13/2008
We are pleased to reprint these remarks by Fran Held, chairperson of the Rabbi Farewell Weekend honoring the Ackerman family. Fran gave this talk of Friday evening, December 14, following a...
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Messenger Article December 2007 - 12/4/2007
This is the talk given by Hesed Co-Chair Fran Held as the speaker at the 25th Anniversary of the Home Delivered Meals Program of the Mitzvah Food Pantry on November 1, 2007. In response to...
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From the Hesed Committee - 10/16/2007
TBI Messenger, October 2007
Have you ever known someone who was struggling with illness? Maybe one of your parents was sick? Or perhaps a grandparent or even a sibling? If you...
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