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We’re seeing the negatives of it in the corporate world and in government. BH we have organization that do a lot of good work but it takes a hit on individuality.
Totally agree, go out of town and if you hear someone is in the hospital people step up and make food for them, in NY people say “there’s Bikur Cholim”
i dont fully understand why thats a bad thing. it seems more reliable to have a bikur cholim. and i dont think its really a bigger chesed to make your own supper for them
Kalt, bikur cholim is amazing, but as someone who has spent time with multiple family members in the hospital, the relief to myself and the patients from having someone we know bring us jomemade food is a lot more than mass produced meals – im not, chas veshalom, knocking bikur cholim – they’re amazing! They are part of the chesed army that makes klal yisroel’s holiness visible yo the entire world, helping tens of thousands of people.
American strength is in “scaling” to large organizations, so we are bound to use that midah, creating biggest yeshivos, biggest kosher food businesses, etc leaving it to French to create tastiest, etc.
Still, the problem with organizations is that responsibility goes to some person whom you do not know, and whose values may not be same as yours. Chofetz chaim who lived in the age of emerging political organizations opined that even in the organization consisting of Rabonim, the power will belong to the secretary … I also once (sic!) saw a Rav being on a panel discussing certain social issues pointed to another Rav on the same panel, who ran a way bigger organization, and mentioned that that Rav offered to join their efforts but he politely declined reasoning that he feels better being fully responsible for what his little mossad was doing … I presume that he mentioned this publicly for the benefit of the listeners.
To coffee addict: Some chesed traditions are out of date. Certainly in New York, kosher food is available, And some patients need special diets, e.g., free of salt and certain spices, or fat
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