Perhaps you remember seeing our Megillat Chesed scroll displayed during our last High Holy Days – or maybe you were one of its writers! Please join us for our Yom Chesed morning, which will include a Yizkor ritual. It will be our Shabbat sustenance this week – including sustenance for body (food!), spirit and mind, including an opportunity to add your own written reflections for our Megillat Chesed scroll.
Chesed – lovingkindness – is a pillar of Jewish community. The spiritual journey toward freedom that begins with Pesach requires acts of chesed to make it through to Sinai and revelation. To help us do this, NVHC has crafted Yom Chesed, a joyful, prayerful, reflective ritual to express gratitude for the opportunities we each have when doing mitzvot of caring for one other. Part of the ritual is adding to our Megillat Chesed scroll that we created by writing reflections of our own experiences of doing chesed for others. This scroll is then unrolled and displayed during the subsequent High Holy Days.
