Driving Chessed All Around Town - Kosher Meals on Wheels

Published in the NCJW/GDS Newslink Winter/Spring 2013, with the following introduction:

Last summer, a recent high school student graduate, Dovid Nissan Roetter, came to the Prentis Apartments kitchen to fill in for the mashgiach for a week. The role of the mashgiach is to "supervise the kashrut status of a kosher establishment." When a young person either volunteers or observes our Kosher Meals on Wheels (KMOW) program, i often wonder - "what are they thinking?"
Well, Dovid answered that question for me by transferring his thoughts to paper in a special way. I hope you enjoy his poem as much as I did when he surprised me with it, and I hope it inspires you to join our KMOW volunteer team. Contact Richard Emmer at 248-967-0967 or meals@ncjwgds.org.


I’m sitting here watching,
The cooking and the packaging.
Delicious food all around,
Being delivered all over the town.

People waiting to eat,
These yummy packages that just can’t be beat.
Everyone working selflessly,
To help a fellow person in need.

It’s Meals On Wheels at its best,
100% dedication – not a drop less.
From the chefs to the drivers, and all in between,
You all make such an amazing team.

It’s hard to truly understand what chessed means,
Especially when you’re still just a teen.
But watching such a project, you just learn,
That there’s a person in need around every turn.

Day in, day out, you do so much good,
Not one complaint have I heard.
You enjoy what you do and I think that’s great,
And you do your best to not be late.

The smile on your face is shining,
And it passes onto the recipient’s when they are dining.
Meals On Wheels, you teach a lesson to everyone,
Chessed’s around the corner – let’s have fun.

To everyone who helps Meals On Wheels in any way,
I would like to thank you for the opportunity to learn so much about
the proper way to do chessed: the attitude, the love, the care, the desire,
and the joy of making someone smile.

You are all part of such an amazing team. May you each have much
success in all that you choose to accomplish.
Keep driving those smiles around!
May you someday light up the world one meal at a time.

Thank you for all that you have taught me this past week,
Dovid Nissan Roetter