Shalach Manot Swap

Posted by on Feb 07, 2007 in News & Updates, Purim | 8 comments

With Purim rapidly approaching, I’ve been thinking a lot about the tradition of Shalach Manot — gifts of the hands. First I was thinking I’d send one of my fabulous readers a shalach manot package. Then I thought about encouraging everyone to adopt a soldier and send a shalach manot to someone serving in the military.

And then I had a great idea — why do both and then some. In the spirit of the mitzvot of both giving gifts to the needy at Purim and also giving gifts to friends and acquaintances — I hereby dedicate the great Shalach Manot Swap of 5767.

Here’s how you can participate:

  1. To participate in the swap with other readers of this site — leave a comment on this page by Friday, February 23, 2007.

    DON’T give any personal information in the body of the comment. Just make sure you use a valid email address in the email address field. If you have any food allergies, keep kosher (level of please), vegan, or things like that DO mention that in your comment. Also if you are able to send more than one package, please mention that as well.

    On Sunday, February 25, 2007, I’ll send everyone their matches. The only requirement is that EVERYTHING in the package is homemade. It could be cookies or crafties — doesn’t matter — but you have to make it yourself.

    2. OR

  2. Send Shalach Manot to a soldier serving overseas or recovering from injuries here in the states through AnySoldier.com. Another option is to get a jump on Pesach and send a Seder package to troops and their families.

    I’m looking for any information about how to specifically send packages to Jewish soldiers in the US Military. There’s lots on how to send stuff to IDF soldiers, but I’d like to support my own troops who are seriously in harms way right now. I’ll post information on this as I find it.

    I’m going to contact the Chaplain’s office at Walter Reed Medical Center and see if there’s options to deliver packages to Jewish soldiers recovering there — again — I’ll let you know what I find out.

Learn more about the tradition of Shalach Manot (Manos)

[tags]purim, shalach manot, shalach manos, mitzvot, soldiers [/tags]


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8 Comments

  1. Dotan / February 8, 2007

    Great! you would need to ask people to write their addresses, though.

  2. Carly (Chava Chai - / February 8, 2007

    I'll email everyone privately and gather the mailing addresses — or supply swap partners with each other's email addresses and they can get the information themselves.

  3. Dotan / February 8, 2007

    what I was trying to say is that you better know who are (if any) the folks that live out of the US, and where do they live – before matching.

  4. Dotan / February 8, 2007

    Hi, Carly.
    first of – we say "Mishloah' Manot" (משלוח מנות), meaning "delivery of portions".
    secondly, can people from Israel take part in the swap?

  5. Carly (Chava Chai - / February 8, 2007

    Dotan

    You can most certainly participate. If other Israelis get involved then I'll try to match you to each other to save on shipping/customs issues.

    But I definitely this would be even better with a little international connection!

    And of course, I would encourage my Israeli friends to show some love to those currently serving in the IDF, too.

  6. Dotan / February 22, 2007

    Hi, Carly.
    Well, my Mishloah-Manot-Swap details are:
    1. I'm vegetarian. I don't eat meat, fish or eggs. dairy is fine.
    2. I live in Israel. I'll prefer sending a Mishloah-Manot to someone in the holyland, middle-east or europ – but if not, the US is fine too.

    Purim Sameah!
    -Dotan.

  7. Dotan / February 26, 2007

    I'm the only one that wrote here, so I guess thw whole swap thing is off. Isn't it?

  8. Carly (Chava Chai - / February 27, 2007

    Sadly — there's not too much interest. *sigh*

    I'm going to close the comments, as we've run out of time to organize the swap.

    Maybe next year!

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