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| You must complete one hesed in all four categories during the four weeks. It's up to you to decide which category to pair with each week's challenge. |
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Think of a creative way to use cardboard for a good cause. Here are some examples:
Feeding the hungry: Pack boxes of food to give to a local homeless shelter.
Clothing the needy: Design a drop-off box for a shoe drive.
Visiting the sick: Read a book to an elderly friend or hospital patient, then give him or her a bookmark you made out of cardboard.
Hesed at home: Make a cardboard doll house for your little sister to play with when you babysit. |
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Use your artistic talents to help others. Here are some examples:
Feeding the hungry: Cook a sumptuous meal (or dessert) for a family in your neighborhood that needs help. (Perhaps you know a family that recently had a baby, or a family with someone in Iraq.)
Clothing the needy: Knit a scarf or cut one out of fleece for a needy child. Click here for simple instructions.
Visiting the sick: Write a poem for a grandparent or other elderly relative.
Hesed at home: Help siblings with their homework. |
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Use a bouncing ball (or anything that refers to a ball) to enliven someone's life. Here are some examples:
Feeding the hungry: As a fund-raiser, invite friends, teachers, and community leaders to an “all-star” basketball game. Ask spectators to bring canned food, which you can give to a soup kitchen or food pantry.
Clothing the needy: Look through your closet and donate any unneeded clothing (including any formal clothes that might be worn to an old fashion dress-up ball).
Visiting the sick: Juggle, do card tricks, and tell jokes for patients at a children’s hospital.
Hesed at home: Use a ball-point pen to take notes at school for a sick friend. Take the notes and homework assignment to your friend's house. |
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Use the power of speech to improve the world. Here are some examples:
Feeding the hungry: Ask a local restaurant or caterer for leftovers and deliver them to a food pantry.
Clothing the needy: Offer to do some sewing and mending at a soup kitchen.
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Visiting the sick: Say a mi shebeirakh (prayer for the sick) for someone.
Hesed at home: Call an elderly relative to say hello. |
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| Click here to download the entry form. Click here to get more ideas for acts of hesed. |
