This morning I pulled into the Tim Horton’s on Caledonia for my morning decaf coffee. There are two entrances for the drive through ordering system. I happened to notice a car that wanted to enter the line up of cars from the uncommon entrance. I waved my hand and encouraged the gentleman to enter the [...]

Camp Manitou, (www.manitoucamp.com) owned and operated by Mark Diamond (Ve’ahavta Chairperson) and Jeff Wilson, is a beautiful environment for children of all ages and backgrounds. Part of their character and mission is to share with the world around them. Please takea look at the following link to determine how you can share in MANITOU CARES.
Well done, Camp [...]

On Tuesday of this week, I took my 16 year old cat, Fluffy, to the vet for the last time. She’d had two tumors removed from her tummy in July and unfortunately the cancer had spread to her lungs. Fluffy was sweet, gentle and kind with other animals and [...]

The Chilean Miners: A Natural Miracle
By Avrum Rosensweig
The rescue off 33 men in a Chilean mine seems Biblical in texture and miraculous in nature.
Millions of us traveled into the guts of the earth, to join in a rescue of 33 Chilean miners and to witness the intersection of nature, faith, the Divine, and the brilliance [...]

Yesterday during my outreach shift, I was stopped in a rough intersection helping about 20 people. A Muslim man walked up and praised me and our organization for doing God’s work. He blessed me in Arabic.
A nice, healing gesture, and one that is too rare among all people of differing faiths.
- Perry

I live in the downtown area of Yorkville, which is quite affluent. It also has a large population of panhandling “regulars.” I find some of them difficult to interact with at times, in fact most of the time I don’t interact with them at all. There’s the young guy who tries to bully you into [...]

Whenever I am walking behind someone and the tag on the back of their shirt is hanging out, I gently tap them on the shoulder and let them know, then tuck the tag inside. Every person has thanked me and smiled, and in fact, one person was so grateful, she [...]

Even though it seems not to be politically correct these days, I try to celebrate the birthdays of everyone in the office – either publicly (because we are a small and close-knit bunch) or privately with a card and a whispered “Happy Birthday”. Friends and family get cards (both [...]

Our office keeps bottled water in the fridge. When we have a hot day (and we’ve had alot of hot days this summer), I offer the person who delivers our mail “a cold one”. It’s always received gratefully and with a smile.
- Terri, posted via Facebook

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When I’m out walking in the park I collect garbage and carry it out with me. I figure that people are less likely to drop their waste if they see a clean park.
- Jane, posted via Facebook

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When you are online and have a minute to spare take a look at www.thenonprofits.com, the Free Donations Directory.
You may remember The Hunger Site the Breast Cancer Site or the Rainforest Site – a group of websites that collect money from their sponsors every time you click. That’s all it takes… a few seconds to [...]

I was reading to my daughter, and came across a story that had been adapted from a poem by Randy Poole titled “The Difference He Made.” Here’s how the story went.
One morning, while walking down a quiet beach, a boy saw an old man picking up stranded starfish and throwing them back into [...]

I have come to realize that even though one may not have money, shelter or even more than a few pairs of clothes, one does have a heart. And in that heart flows the same blood as I. A few years ago, I traveled to Turkey where I met some amazing friends. They lived in [...]

I spent an hour speaking to a lawyer about someone who is awaiting trial in prison. I am making arrangements with the lawyer to provide this person with clothes for court and money for what he needs in jail.
- Theresa
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I work with people in prison, a population not normally associated with “goodness”. Pete, someone I work with who has been inside for many years, is an amazing visual artist. He gives a lot of his paintings and drawings to non-profit community agencies to be used as fundraising tools, and doesn’t ask for a penny [...]

At the beginning of May, Matthew, a twelve year old boy who is celebrating his Bar Mitzvah this October, came up with the idea to collect 1,800 pair of socks to donate to homeless people all over Toronto. He chose that number because in Judaism the number 18 represents chai, or life, and he wanted [...]

Yesterday, standing in line at the supermarket, I helped the people in front of me pay their bill as they were short of cash. They actually were removing groceries that they wanted to buy from their bags so they could get down to the amount of cash they had available.
- Arieh
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For the last 5 years, there has been a shelf in my kitchen cupboard labeled “Food Bank Shelf” and whenever I shop for groceries, I try to pick up an item or two to add to the shelf. I try to mix and match (ie: pasta and a can/jar of sauce, peanut butter and [...]

I was walking with my daughter in her stroller when I heard a dull, loud thud on the road just ahead of us. I looked up to see that a car had turned left into oncoming traffic and had struck another vehicle.
The damage looked to be superficial but both drivers were very shaken. They were [...]

So – there’s this homeless guy in need of size 10 1/2 shoes because his are falling apart and wouldn’tcha know that some Ve’ahavta employee went to Value Village and found a pair of runners in that size. Needless to say, Big John is a happy fella.
- Terri, posted via Facebook
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While I was in Israel recently, I fell ill with sunstroke. For 24 hours I was pretty uncomfortable and as you know being away from home, and being sick, is not pleasant. I was staying in a three-star hotel where they did not have room service. Ugh!
When the front desk got word [...]

When I went to Canadian Blood Services yesterday, I thought I would be donating just platelets (#103) but they needed plasma, so what the heck, what’s a few more blood cells when the body just makes ‘em up again within 24 hours.
- Terri, posted via Facebook
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I was outside on garbage day trying to move two green bins, a large garbage bin and three yard waste containers up to the side of the house. I had a two-year-old in tow and was trying to keep her away from the road while keeping an eye on the newborn that was fussing in [...]

Our goal is to gather 1000 acts of tikun olam by the end of the year. In the long run we hope to set a world record of one million.
How you can help:

Have you witnessed a good or healing act that you would like to [...]

An Archive of Goodness is memory book of valuable Tikun Olam experiences that will be a constant reminder of our ability to do goodness as a reflection of human kind.
Ve’ahavta’s bloggers have taken up the challenge of archiving goodness, kindness, and healing the world and will reflect on what this means to them. We encourage [...]