Photo by Miguel Dulick
It is the personality of the teacher which is the text that the pupils read: the text that they will never forget.
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
That is my beloved teacher in that picture: Miguel Dulick. He’s a devout Jesuit. That doesn’t stop him from being my rabbi.
He teaches us to love without limit.
Miguel lives with and serves his community in Las Vegas, Honduras where he adopted Chemo so this child could have the heart surgery that would save his life. He gives away his pension, he gives away everything he can to help his neighbors. Between 150-200 people a month . . . a month . . . come to Miguel for a "little help." They come from Pueblo Nuevo, Nueva Palmira, Paraíso , Terrero Blanco, La Catorce, Nueva Suyapa, Tierra Amarilla, Panal, Cafetales, La laguna, Guachipiln, Ojo de Agua . . . for Modesta Morillo coming to Miguel for help the first time involved a four-hour hike through the mountains with her four children carrying three pounds of beans for Miguel.
In the Spring of 2019 I started the Love Is Boss: Let’s Help in Honduras GoFundMe because there was too much need for Miguel to possibly meet. Together, 108 donors have helped in so many ways including helping young people feel less desperate and instead of joining the ill-destined caravans for our southern border more of them have stayed home with their families and loved ones. We’ve outfitted kids for school, fed families, gotten access to medical care, helped build homes, celebrated birthdays, supported a pregnant woman toward a safe and healthy birth, bought diapers, bought supplies for elders, and helped cover the costs of burying loved ones.
Everything was already hard. Really hard. And then the Pandemic came.
We've done amazing things together. But we aren't done. We can't be done.
Miguel can't increase his pension, and we can raise more money. I hope you’ll join us!
Please invest in this community through the Go Fund Me.
It doesn't get more direct than this. No overhead. No employees. No office expenses.
I cover the Go Fund Me fees.
Every cent contributed goes directly to people living in poverty in Honduras.
Many of our biblical commandments about reaching out to and helping people who are experiencing poverty, illness, homelessness, or who are in a new place are collected under the umbrella of giving tzedakah or doing Tikkun Olam. Things like leaving harvest gleanings and the edges of the fields for people who are hungry (Leviticus 19:9-10, 23:22), providing interest-free loans (Exodus 22:24), forgiving loans and tithing (Deuteronomy 15:1-11 and Deuteronomy 26:12-13) give guidance in what it means to work toward justice through giving tzedakah. The root of the word, tzedek, means justice. Tikkun Olam means to heal or repair the world.
The world is so big. I don’t know how to repair it all.
What I do know is this is what it feels like to love without limit.
This is what life looks like when love is boss.
