Chessed, in Quarantine days

B”H

Some of ideas of Chessed (asides from the obvious obligation helping out at home) one can do during physical isolation due to pandemic:

1. Checking on the elderly, on the lonlier…

2. Davening for the sick. (It’s a condition in any Bikur Cholim as Remoh states Y.D 335).

3. Nichum Aveilom R”L by phone or in writing (though not as good enough as in person, but it’s a Mitzvah as is nevertheless of course Yechave-Daat 3:83, 3:65, 4:434).

4. Checking on the sick , over the phone or in writing (see 3).

5. Teaching Torah (Sukkah 49b) over the phone .

6. Cheering up others, especially in these days. The Zohar (Tazria) states, as one is punished for uttering “bad words”, so is one punished for NOT uttering good words when opportunity arrives.

7. Learning for a miftar’s neshomo, Chessed Shel Emes.
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Gut Shabbos leSeder ‘veOhavto’ 5780.