How do you do justice to someone as incredible as the Mitzvah Man and all his volunteers?
The answer is, you can’t.
One morning, I found that my washing machine, which had been limping along on its last leg, finally decided to lay down and die. I was lost as to what I should do. I was a single mother, not yet employed, and experiencing the very recent loss of my mother, whom I had had the honor of caring for in my home for 10 years.
It all seemed so impossible. I tried calling a gemach, but I couldn’t afford to pay, even wholesale. Then, I remembered someone my niece had mentioned a while ago—the Mitzvah Man.
I called, I asked, and I received. I still can’t believe it. Within days, I received a washing machine—brand new, right out of the box, and delivered to my door. I was thrilled; I still am.
How is it possible that one human being can inspire so many to do the work of the Almighty?
The Mitzvah Man will not allow me to mention his name or tell his story but the volunteer who so graciously provided a washing machine from his business has no choice in this matter. His name is Abie Sayegh, his store is Tower Electronics on 5th Avenue in Brooklyn, and he has quietly done many a mitzvah for the Mitzvah Man. In his own words, “Once something is done for you, it has a domino effect. It makes you turn around and do hesed for another. It is an opportunity.”
I know that mine is only one small story among many tales of good done by the Mitzvah Man and his volunteers, of whom I am now proudly one. How do I know this? When I told my sister, who lives in Israel, about the Mitzvah Man, she was well aware of his doings. He had once arranged for a volunteer to accompany her elderly father-in-law on a flight from Brooklyn to Israel.
A thousand words are not enough to express the wonder of one single mitzvah from the Mitzvah Man. Everyone he touches turns around and helps another.
His motivation is so simple: “I want to help anyone I can.”
His results are so profound. Waves and waves of mitzvahs result from his pure, sweet endeavor.
