I've been kind of remiss about posting here. Our internet provider, which was never great, called us a few months ago, and told us that they will be giving us faster service at no extra charge. Since then, it has not only gotten slower, but it is frequently not working altogether.
This morning I got a post from my friend, Shmuel Greenbaum. Shmuel's wife Shoshana a"h was murdered in the terrorist attack at Sbarro's in Yerushalayim. In her memory, he started "A Tradition Of Kindness" and "Partners In Kindness," which encourage people around the world to do an act of kindness each day. Today's post was entitled "An End to Kindness?" Apparently, there is a dearth of stories, and he was asking for more. While writing a number of stories for him to use, I realized that actually, I should post one of them right here.
My laptop is very sensitive, its battery seems to have died, and it frequently says is about to close down (like now.) So let's hope my laptop and internet stay on, and the website also cooperates while I write and post this...
We have a 12 year old boy, kind of an orphan, living with us. He was brought up, if one can call it that, under difficult circumstances. He never met his father, and his mother is always away. First he lived in a small, poor village, and later with a gentile "babushka" who took money for him, and used nearly all of it for herself. Now, boruch Hashem, he lives with us. When he says Tehillim on the Shabbos preceding the new Jewish month, I offered to give him 5 grivni (under a dollar) for each of the 5 books he reads.
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