Sure... It sounds good, but the problem is most of us have the same
skill set. Where's the retired dentist who will fix my tooth in my
living room? :)
That's funny, not ha ha funny. One of the many people I buried over the last 5 years was an optometrist who would make house calls.
Murry Warner was a gem of a man and I hope inspired others to take up such a love of practice. He died of cardiac arrest while vacuuming out his car after reportedly what was the best round of golf he'd had in years! I was an assistant rabbi at the time and COVID was just starting.
My only bit of kit is an old 1950's highway transit for helping out folks with my engineering skills. I really should look for a total station but I'm a little afraid of how to keep it alive and working. The batteries are a little hard to get after a while and the data collectors as well. I suppose it's not the end of the world I have some old analogue gear though. I mean they did build the interstate system with these old transits and steel tapes and slide rulers. So as long we we have time, we can still work with that equipment it's just a little harder and a lot slower than GPS and total station. It's almost like the anti-baptists approach wasn't all that bad. If I wanted to use my old transit to stake to my property line I can't do it alone. If I had a survey grade GPS I'd have it done myself in a morning. I don't know if it was all that bad to be a little slower and reliant on more
helpers.
In the Jewish world of the past as we were not considered people by many, even here in the US we sort of had to duplicate services. It wasn't uncommon for there to be (and I'm talking late 1800's early 1900's here) what we'd call no-intrest micro-loans for members of the synagogue. Efforts to get your fellows employed in what ever you could. We had JCC's (Jewish Community Centers) because we weren't welcome at the community pools or gyms. There was HIAS the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society which helped anyone trying to make a new start in the country and still exists to this day. Tzedaka is translated as charity but it's not really that. It's the work that attempts to improve the world. The scholar Maimonides had 8 levels to tzedaka. From worst to best
1 Giving begrudgingly
2 Giving less than you should, but giving it cheerfully
3 Giving after being asked
4 Giving before being asked
5 Giving when you do not know the recipient's identity, but the recipient knows your identity
6 Giving when you know the recipient's identity, but the recipient doesn't know your identity
7 Giving when neither party knows the other's identity
8 Enabling the recipient to become self-reliant
You don't have to be Jewish to appreciate the power of community or this idea of charity.
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