Preparations for Purim are well under way

Preparations for Purim are well under way

Preparations for Purim are well under way at the headquarters of the Chabad's Terror Victims Project in Kfar Chabad. As usual, special activities will take place for thousands of IDF widows, wounded IDF soldiers and terror victims and their families throughout Israel. Hundreds of Chabad House volunteers will visit the families at their homes, bringing them mishloach manos and Purim greetings

 

Students from kfar chabad grade 7 volunteer and help pack shaloch monos for the widows of soldiers and terror victims.  

“These short visits are very important to the families. It gives them the feeling that Chabad remembers them, especially when everyone is having a good time. It’s a wonderful privilege for us to be able to bring some happiness to these heroic families,” said Rabbi Menachem Kutner, director of Chabad's Terror Victims Project.

Every year, the widows of soldiers who were killed as long ago as during the Six Day War (1967) and the Yom Kippur War (1973) still receive mishloach manos from Chabad. “The widows deeply appreciate this wonderful tradition. Many of them even call us beforehand to find out if we will remember to visit them this year,” said Rabbi Aharon Pruss of the Lubavitch Youth Organization.

The children of Kfar Chabad and their teachers are also involved with the preparations, and have been packing the parcels under the direction of Rabbi Yaakov Pinson of the Lubavitch Youth Organization’s Logistics Department.

“The children are given the opportunity to feel as if they are involved in shlichus. They do their work with a positive attitude and a true sense of shlichus,” said one of the teachers.