Friday morning we headed off to various Tzedakah sites. I went to a soup kitchen in Jerusalem. When we got there we watched a video about hunger in Israel. We learned that one in three children are below the poverty line in Israel. We also learned that many immigrants from the Holocaust have a hard time finding work and therefore have to choose between a loaf of bread of their daily medications. The soup kitchen we went to also provides a free dental care and helps the community get jobs. It is a really cool organization and I'm really happy I had the opportunity to help out there. We worked in the kitchen. First we peeled and cut potatoes, then tomatoes, then cabbage. There were other people working in the kitchen from Finland and The Netherlands. We were supposed to go to the shuk after the soup kitchen but it was raining so instead we just came back to the kibbutz. We ordered pizza for lunch which was fun. We split up into groups for Friday night services. I went to re constructionist temple led by a young man who actually participated in EIE in 1994. The synagogue has no rabbi and it consisted of a lot of discussion and music. I didn't really enjoy it, but it was an interesting experience.
We returned to Kibbutz Tzuba for group song session. After song session Noa asked me if I wanted to read Torah in the morning. *Note it was about 9:30 at night at this point. I said I couldn't because I didn't remember it so then Lior pulled up my portion on his Iphone and I practiced for hours.
Lights out was at midnight so Noa came to my room to check how it was going. I read for her and she said I would be ready for the morning. I practiced a little more for my roommate Rebecca, then went to sleep.
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