Students and young students from Jerusalem distribute food parcels to the elderly during Purim
The elderly had a light: Elderly people living in Jerusalem were especially moved by the guests who came to them on Shushan Purim: students and young students studying around the city, who decided to bring them a personal delivery of meals - and put them in the atmosphere of the Purim holiday.
The young students formed within the social initiative of 'Get Hesed', in which over a thousand students and young people regularly visit lonely elderly people and Holocaust survivors.
"Among the elderly, there are also graduates of Israel's wars for whom the events overwhelm them with difficult experiences, which brings them to severe loneliness," says Rabbi Mendi Beloy of Eshal Chabad, who is behind the exciting initiative.
Students and young students from Jerusalem distribute food parcels to the elderly during Purim
In each delivery of dishes, various snacks were included, adapted for the elderly, and those that will make them happy during the Purim holiday.
The students packed the thousands of shipments themselves, over the last few days.
The elderly also received information about public scroll readings that will be held during the holiday.
"These home visits are simply essential," says Beloy, "the visits leading up to Purim and today on Shushan Purim, continue the series of visits by those students to the homes of the elderly every Friday as well as during the week. This is a real need that allows these elderly people a social life.
"Some of those elderly people do not have No person will bring them a delivery of meals and this initiative allows them to enter the holiday with a big smile and true happiness that someone is thinking of them."
David Or Shahar, who coordinates the project, says that "the distribution of meal deliveries both makes the elderly happy and allows them to make others happy.
The most amazing thing is that the number of students who volunteered for the ration distribution project has increased by dozens of percent from all the initiatives we have done to date and this only proves what an amazing generation we have grown up here.
In addition, the cohesion between the generations is a first-rate educational thing."
David Berger, in collaboration with Shuba Israel
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