Friday, February 14, 2014
Every Friday morning, we do a Tzedakah project as a group. Tzedakah by the way is pronounced very differently here from how it is in America. This week, we went to help out at a home in Jerusalem for people with special needs. The people who live there work in a factory building things. So most of the group went to the factory to help them with their projects, but a small group of people went to the actual home to sing Jewish songs with the residents. I went to the home to play songs, as one of seven people who brought a guitar. We didn't prepare much, so I didn't really know the songs we were playing, but I did my best to follow along, and everybody seemed to be enjoying it a lot. It was really wonderful to see their faces light up when we started to play a song they liked, and how much fun they were having singing along. We ran out of songs that we all knew how to play pretty quickly, and then we all tried to follow whoever knew which particular song we were playing. To the people living at the home it didn't seem to matter that we were playing the wrong chords and slurring the Hebrew words, because they were just happy to have us there singing with them. It was a really great experience overall.
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