chesedname wrote:
the winner would be somone we don’t know.
in my eyes the jew of the decade is the simple yid who davens 3 times a day without talking in shul, makes an honest living, has no need to out do his neighbor, gives his 10% without awards, is home for his family at night and with all that manages to learn an hour or 2.
I somewhat agree with this. There are probably many simple Jews like this but on the other hand, there is a huge zchus in being osek bitzarchai tzibbur. There are some people who on the outside seem like simple Jews who make an honest living, learn some Torah, etc, but actually do a lot of hidden chessed as well, it is one of those who should be the Jew of the decade. The Jew of the decade might even be someone who is known as a big askan, etc but whose true greatness is not known because he actually does so much more than the public knows.