http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/mishloach-manot-for-a-classmate-in-need/ The Marketplace of Ideas Sun, 26 May 2013 12:10:33 +0300 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/mishloach-manot-for-a-classmate-in-need/#comment-99696 Michal Kessler Steinhart Sat, 02 Mar 2013 22:13:12 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=104600#comment-99696 Thanks so much!

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/mishloach-manot-for-a-classmate-in-need/#comment-99698 Michal Kessler Steinhart Sat, 02 Mar 2013 22:13:12 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=104600#comment-99698 Thanks so much!

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/mishloach-manot-for-a-classmate-in-need/#comment-98336 Daniel Solomon Sayani Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:07:37 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=104600#comment-98336 Reaching out and bringing HaShem's love and the simcha of Purim to total strangers, to the poor, the marginally-connected, the outsider, sounds like a perfect way to memorialize the nifteret, may her neshama have an aliyah.

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/mishloach-manot-for-a-classmate-in-need/#comment-98338 Daniel Solomon Sayani Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:07:37 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=104600#comment-98338 Reaching out and bringing HaShem's love and the simcha of Purim to total strangers, to the poor, the marginally-connected, the outsider, sounds like a perfect way to memorialize the nifteret, may her neshama have an aliyah.

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/mishloach-manot-for-a-classmate-in-need/#comment-98154 CoachRahel Jarach Sun, 24 Feb 2013 18:12:20 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=104600#comment-98154 Two years ago we gave to a BT divorcee mom (non jewish ex) who had never received a MM. She was almost crying of surprise.

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/mishloach-manot-for-a-classmate-in-need/#comment-98112 Joshua Grady-Share Sun, 24 Feb 2013 09:29:41 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=104600#comment-98112 Us too. Purim sameach and yashir koach!

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/mishloach-manot-for-a-classmate-in-need/#comment-98114 Joshua Grady-Share Sun, 24 Feb 2013 09:29:41 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=104600#comment-98114 Us too. Purim sameach and yashir koach!

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/mishloach-manot-for-a-classmate-in-need/#comment-98100 Deena Levenstein Sun, 24 Feb 2013 09:10:12 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=104600#comment-98100 Thanks for saying that.

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/mishloach-manot-for-a-classmate-in-need/#comment-98102 Deena Levenstein Sun, 24 Feb 2013 09:10:12 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=104600#comment-98102 Thanks for saying that.

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/mishloach-manot-for-a-classmate-in-need/#comment-98108 Deena Levenstein Sun, 24 Feb 2013 09:10:02 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=104600#comment-98108 Sarah Kaye that's a very nice idea.

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/mishloach-manot-for-a-classmate-in-need/#comment-98110 Deena Levenstein Sun, 24 Feb 2013 09:10:02 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=104600#comment-98110 Sarah Kaye that's a very nice idea.

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/mishloach-manot-for-a-classmate-in-need/#comment-98096 Racheli Abramson Harris Sun, 24 Feb 2013 08:14:30 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=104600#comment-98096 Kol Hakavod to you. How sad about your classmate. So true how the small gesstures can make a big difference. Even just a smile and hello can mean a lot to someone. Sometmes people are chasing those "loftier goals" and forget to actually be a nice person n their every day life.

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/mishloach-manot-for-a-classmate-in-need/#comment-98098 Racheli Abramson Harris Sun, 24 Feb 2013 08:14:30 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=104600#comment-98098 Kol Hakavod to you. How sad about your classmate. So true how the small gesstures can make a big difference. Even just a smile and hello can mean a lot to someone. Sometmes people are chasing those "loftier goals" and forget to actually be a nice person n their every day life.

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/mishloach-manot-for-a-classmate-in-need/#comment-98104 Sarah Kaye Sun, 24 Feb 2013 08:07:47 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=104600#comment-98104 It's an interesting approach to mishloach manot. I started a different minhag about four years ago. I now prepare one or two very large mishloach manot and give them to people who have done me chesed over the last year. It's my way of saying thank you to them. I actually hadn't thought about mishloach manot as chesed itself though.

]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/mishloach-manot-for-a-classmate-in-need/#comment-98106 Sarah Kaye Sun, 24 Feb 2013 08:07:47 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=104600#comment-98106 It's an interesting approach to mishloach manot. I started a different minhag about four years ago. I now prepare one or two very large mishloach manot and give them to people who have done me chesed over the last year. It's my way of saying thank you to them. I actually hadn't thought about mishloach manot as chesed itself though.

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