Removing the Stumbling Blocks
What do you think of when you see a pile of eyeglasses?
Is this what you see in your mind’s eye? Or do you see the potential of giving sight to thousands?
A Bar Mitzvah student in our congregation placed an empty box in the foyer of our shul, requesting donations of prescription glasses, sunglasses, and readers. His goal? To collect 1,800 pair and donate them to an organization that will retrofit them and make them available to one of the 153 MILLION people worldwide who have uncorrected vision problems. Imagine the significant impact one pair can have to bring clarity to one whose quality of life is compromised by impaired sight. Now imagine the impact of 1,800 pair.
When I heard of the 1,800 pair goal, I admit that I worried it was out-of-reach. But as of last Shabbos, Mattitiyahu b. Miriam had collected over 1,200 pair.
Bringing to life the words of Theodor Herzl, If you will it, it is no dream.