do mitzvot and tikkun olam

Maybe it’s time to rejoin this group. I was on their founding board and got burned out, but just got back from their 10th anniversary celebration which was lovely and inspiring.

I set up for Shabbat services once every couple of months. I lead a torah service with about the same frequency. This week I led part of a shacharit service on 2nd day Rosh Hashanah. I guess those things are mitzvot.

I try to be a good friend to those who need me. I probably overly worry that those people will take up a lot of my time. But when I do spend time with said friends, I usually get a lot out of it.

Trying to end breast cancer, in my own particular…idiom.

No hard-core social justice work at the moment. Oh well.

my job fits in this category. It’s good to remember that, even if, sometimes, it feels like a net negative in the human kindness department.

Now that I’m working I was happy to be able to write a whole bunch of end-of-year checks to organizations I have had to neglect for the past year.

because I don’t really keep track of mitzvot, whereas I tend to go out of my way to do tikkun olam on an organized basis. Today, for example, I canvassed for domestic workers’ rights in Montgomery Co., with a Jewish organization I’ve volunteered with a lot in the past.

I think I can do something on a regular basis, whether or not it involves a donation of money. Lord knows I have enough friends that do this for a living that I can pitch in once in a while.