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the Lubavitcher Rebbe



"Failure is not the enemy of success; it is its prerequisite."

Rabbi Nosson Scherman



16 Mar 2010

Grandma's packages and vehicular bullets

In the past two days I have read two articles about two organizations that have helped others. My admiration knows no bounds to the founders of these organizations whose foresight and perseverance brought their ideas to fruition. May they merit seeing the fruits of their labors serve as an inspiration for others for many years to come.
In the JPost, Jessica Silverman writes about her grandmother's packages delivered to soldiers.

On a hot Thursday in 2000, my grandparents were driving past a checkpoint on the outskirts of Jerusalem. The soldiers at the checkpoint were sweating, and, according to my Jewish grandmother, far too skinny. She decided that instead of simply cooking a Shabbat meal for two that evening, she would also cook for the soldiers at this particular checkpoint. Late that night, she and my grandfather filled the car with chicken and kugel, drove back to checkpoint and distributed the food to the grateful soldiers. They did the same the next week, and the week after that and so on and so on, and even added additional checkpoints to their route, until it seemed as if this had always been part of her pre-Shabbat routine. There was no way she could know it at the time, but my grandmother had started a project that would ultimately change the world, person by person.
...Ten years after her first food delivery to a lonesome checkpoint outside of Jerusalem, and with 150,000 packages sent to IDF soldiers at every base in the country and to combat units in the field, A Package From Home (APFH), has become a well-established organization.

Read full article: http://cgis.jpost.com/Blogs/guest/entry/a_jewish_heroine_the_contribution

In a YeshivaWorld article entitled Misaskim: 24hrs Of Non-Stop Chesed Following Wicked Storm, the activities of the organization are described in full detail.
In the video below, Misaskim Founder Yanky Meyer describes an autopsy that was to take place because the medical examiner wanted to retrieve a bullet lodged in the person's ventricle. The rabbi pointed out that the police report stated that the bullet was in the vehicle, not in the ventricle.

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