Gemilut Hasadim

We build the world on three things.

Torah, Avodah, Gemilut Hasadim, learning, worship, and deeds, Andin, Emet, and Shalom, justice, truth, and peace.

Three generations of our ancestors, three pilgrimage festivals, always three, establishing a pattern, a foundation.

But three years after October 7th, I don't know that the world feels more settled.

We would learn what it means to be self-sufficient.

Gemilut Hasadim.

You know, the amazing, amazing thing.

What is Gemilut Hasadim? Acts of loving kindness.

That's not what it means.

The word Gemilut, it comes from the word gamal, which means a camel.

He's independent.

He's on his own.

In fact, it's become more important as the stakes have grown higher in the face of the challenges facing all of us today.

The rabbis in Pirkei Avot teach us that the world rests on three things, Torah, avodah, and gemilut hasadim.

And we have taken those three things seriously wherever we have lived.

Study, learning, growing, worship, acts of service to others, and acts of kindness.