A 40-day community mitzvah challenge
Mitzvos for Michal
רפואה שלמה מיכל רות בת ברכה יהודית
Michal is a little girl in our community fighting cancer. From Rosh Chodesh Elul (August 13) through Yom Kippur — the 40 days of teshuvah — we're each taking on one mitzvah in the merit of her complete recovery.
747
mitzvos for Michal — and counting
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Pick your mitzvah
Choose something you're not already doing — a real stretch for you. There's no hierarchy: every step counts the same.
2
Keep it for 40 days
Rosh Chodesh Elul (August 13) through Yom Kippur (September 20–21). We'll send you reminders and everything you need to succeed.
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Carry Michal with you
Every commitment adds to the count and joins the wall below — one community, hundreds of merits, one little girl.
Meet Michal 💛
She's sweet, she's silly, and she has a fight ahead of her that no child should have to face. Our sages teach that Torah, tefillah and acts of kindness can change what happens in this world. So we're not just hoping — we're doing. Forty days. One mitzvah each. All of it for her.
Please keep her in mind by her full name: Michal Rus bas Bracha Yehudis · מיכל רות בת ברכה יהודית.
Choose your mitzvah
Pick something that stretches you — if you already do it, reach for the next step. Already daven Shacharis? Take on Mincha. Already learn daily? Add a session.
Tap a category to see the mitzvos ↑
Michal's Mitzvos
Every card is a commitment carried for Michal.
🙏 Davening from a siddur
— Dani K.
🙏 A full tefillah every week
— Anonymous
✨ Saying Asher Yatzar
— Rochel H.
✏️ More intentional communication
— Margot E.
🤝 Greeting everyone first
— Ruth S.
✏️ Not using phone on Shabbat
— Anonymous
✨ One bracha a day with kavana
— raizy H.
✏️ Asher Yatzar inside
— Bracha M.
🙏 Say anemone esrei every day
— Suri F.
🤝 Taking a grandchild to an extra-curricular class during usual "me time"
— Anonymous
✏️ Not speaking Lashon Hara
— Esther B.
🙏 Daven without the phine around
— Chaya K.
🤝 Daily Shmiras Halashon
— Anonymous
🙏 daven
— hadassah M.
✏️ Wear yalmukah on shabbos
— Zev R.
✏️ Washing negel vasser
— Shlomo R.
✏️ Wearing a yalmuka
— Shua R.
✨ Saying Asher Yatzar
— Leeba K.
🤝 A complaint-free meal daily
— Anonymous
✨ Saying Asher Yatzar
— Anonymous
🙏 Daily Tehillim for Michal
— Anonymous
🕯️ read some hilchos shabbos each shabbos
— Anonymous
✨ Slowing down my brachos
— Anonymous
✏️ Say Asher Yatzar standing in place with concentration bezh
— Tzipy G.
📖 Learning the weekly parsha
— Blake C.
✏️ Davening mincha or maariv every day!
— Anonymous
🙏 Shema every day
— Anonymous
✨ Say a bracha every time I eat a fruit or a vegetable
— Suri F.
✨ Asher Yatzar, word by word
— Kaiya F.
✨ Bentch once a day with kavana
— Anonymous
🙏 Read a chapter of tefilin
— Zarina K.
📵 Phone-free spaces
— Anonymous
✏️ Negal vaaser
— Anonymous
✏️ Negel Vasser
— Anonymous
🤝 A real compliment every day
— Anonymous
✏️ Pirkei Avot study daily
— Anonymous
✏️ Krias Shema Shel Mittah/ Hampil
— Anonymous
✏️ Modeh Ani before getting out of bed
— Anonymous
🙏 Saying brachos daily
— Anonymous
🙏 Daily Tehillim for Michal
— Anonymous
✏️ Write at least one thank you or make at least one thank you call.
— Anonymous
🙏 Say shema from inside
— Anonymous
🙏 Saying Asher Yatzer inside
— Anonymous
🤝 A real compliment every day
— Judith A.
✏️ Saying Asher Yatzar with kavana
— Anonymous
✏️ I will learn a halacha of shmiras halashon every day b'ezras Hashem
— Esti G.
✏️ I will learn Shakira’s Lisbon in Living Emunah 3X a week for Michal bln❤️
— Agi Z.
✏️ Adding Tehillim
— Leeba K.
🤝 A weekly check-in call
— Marsha G.
🙏 Shema every day
— Malka D.
🤝 A daily unasked favor
— Elisheva R.
📵 Social media only one day a week
— Anonymous
✏️ Say Asher Yatzar with Kavanah
— Anonymous
🕯️ Daven Kabbalas Shabbos every week
— Anonymous
🙏 Say brachos every morning
— Anonymous
✨ One bracha a day with kavana
— Anonymous
✨ Unhurried Birkas Hashachar
— Elisheva V.
🤝 Letting go of a grudge
— Elisheva V.
✨ A nightly gratitude journal
— Anonymous
🌱 A nightly cheshbon hanefesh
— Anonymous
✨ A focused bracha on food I love
— Tal R.
✨ A focused bracha on food I love
— Shraga Y.
🌱 60 quiet seconds each morning
— Anonymous
✨ Every bracha with full presence
— Tzirel ..
🙏 Daily Tehillim for Michal
— Anonymous
🍽️ Kosher-certified snacks only
— Shelley G.
🤝 A weekly check-in call
— Anonymous
✨ A focused bracha on food I love
— Anonymous
✨ One real Baruch Hashem a day
— Anonymous
🤝 A lashon-hara-free table
— Anonymous
📖 20 daf of Bava Metzia
— Jonathan M.
🌱 Gam zu l'tovah
— Anonymous
✨ A focused bracha on food I love
— Elana T.
🙏 Daily Tehillim for Michal
— Anonymous
✨ One real Baruch Hashem a day
— Anonymous
🙏 Learning what my tefillah means
— Anonymous
🌱 60 quiet seconds each morning
— Anonymous
✨ A focused bracha on food I love
— Anonymous
🙏 One bracha a day with kavana
— Anonymous
🤝 Judging favorably
— Anonymous
🙏 Say Asher Yatzar inside
— m M.
📖 A weekly Torah podcast
— Anonymous
✏️ Davenning for her
— Yehudis A.
📖 A halacha a day
— Anonymous
🤝 A weekly check-in call
— Anonymous
🙏 Al Hamichya from a text
— Yehudah A.
🤝 A weekly check-in call
— Anonymous
🙏 Say an additional kapitel of Tehilim each day
— Anonymous
🙏 Say אשר יצר inside once a day
— Anonymous
✏️ Say Asher yatzar with kavanah atleast once a day
— Anonymous
✏️ Do vaad-lite
— Anonymous
✏️ Daven at least one tefila a day with a minyan
— Anonymous
✨ Saying Asher yatzar slowly and with kavana
— Anonymous
🙏 A full tefillah every day
— Aviva S.
🤝 Daily tzedakah
— Anonymous
✨ Unhurried Birkas Hashachar
— Chagitti K.
✨ A focused bracha on food I love
— Sara M.
🙏 Daily Tehillim for Michal
— Anonymous
🤝 Judging favorably
— Anonymous
✨ Think about if I’m sending texts that are potentially loshon hara
— Anonymous
🌱 Dropping one habit for 40 days
— Anonymous
🙏 Daily Tehillim for Michal
— M N.
✨ A focused bracha on food I love
— Rachel F.
🤝 Daily tzedakah
— Anonymous
🙏 Daily Tehillim for Michal
— Anonymous
📵 Guarding my eyes
— Anonymous
✨ Bentching from a bentcher
— Sima W.
✏️ To bli neder bezH say her kapital
— Baila Balor K.
🙏 having kavana during bentching
— Anonymous
🙏 A full tefillah every day
— Anonymous
✏️ Will say nishmat kol chai daily, b’.n
— Anonymous
🙏 Daily Tehillim for Michal
— Anonymous
📵 No phone in bedroom
— Anonymous
✏️ Silence my phone during davening
— Anonymous
✏️ 🙏🏽🙏🏽first thing in the morning: pray
— Sofia J.
✏️ Call/text a family member/friend every day & keep a record of each call
— Beatrice D.
🤝 Greeting everyone first
— Chuck M.
🌱 Tracking one middah
— Julie K.
✏️ Mincha
— Anonymous
📖 Daily b'iyun learning
— Anonymous
🙏 Tefilah
— Adina G.
🤝 Daily Shmiras Halashon
— Miriam S.
✨ Bentching from a bentcher
— Anonymous
📖 A halacha a day
— Anonymous
🙏 Modeh Ani every morning
— Aviva S.
✏️ Watch a hilchos shabbos shiur every day
— Anonymous
🙏 Shema every day
— Anonymous
✨ Say Asher Yatzar standing in one place
— Vovo Z.
✏️ Call my mom every Fri
— Anonymous
✨ Shema every day
— Anette S.
🤝 An hour a day of guarded speech
— Anonymous
✏️ Clean up my language
— Anonymous
✏️ Mariv
— Anonymous
🌱 A nightly cheshbon hanefesh
— MARILYN N.
📖 Learn halachos shmeros halashon daily
— Sophia R.
✏️ One Paragraph Benching or Al Hamichya with translation BEH
— Anonymous
✏️ Asher Yatzar in place looking at text
— Goldie S.
🤝 A weekly check-in call
— Tamar H.
✨ Modeh Ani every morning
— Benzion H.
📖 Shnayim mikra every week
— Tani H.
🙏 Daily Tehillim for Michal
— Shalom H.
✨ Unhurried Birkas Hashachar
— Lilly A.
✨ A nightly gratitude journal
— L S.
✏️ thank hashem for my health
— Anonymous
✨ Bentching after one meal a day
— Anonymous
✨ A focused bracha on food I love
— Hinda H.
✏️ No artificial sugar during the week
— Yocheved ש.
✏️ Thanking Hashem every day for five minutes
— Anonymous
🤝 A real compliment every day
— Shira G.
📵 Put my phone away half hour before bedtime
— Anonymous
🤝 Weekly bikur cholim
— Michal A.
✨ Every bracha with full presence
— Anonymous
🙏 A full tefillah every day
— Anonymous
✏️ Daily Tehillim for Michal
— Anonymous
🙏 Shema every day
— Julia S.
✨ One real Baruch Hashem a day
— Anonymous
✏️ Washing Netilat Yadayim by my bed
— Anonymous
✏️ modeh ani and negel vaaser in the morning
— SM H.
✨ Every bracha with full presence
— Anonymous
🌱 Tracking one middah
— Anonymous
✨ One real Baruch Hashem a day
— Anonymous
🙏 Say Perek Tehillim for her
— MARILYN N.
✏️ Say Asher yatzar standing in one place
— Anonymous
✏️ Only saying positive things
— Shana K.
📵 Careful kedusha wise
— Anonymous
🙏 Daven one shemonah esrei each day
— Esty S.
📵 Real limits on my phone
— Mushky G.
🕯️ Lighting Shabbos candles
— Anonymous
🌱 Dropping one habit for 40 days
— Mily S.
🤝 A real compliment every day
— Chana V.
🙏 Modeh Ani every morning
— Anonymous
✨ Shema every day
— Anonymous
🙏 Say Birchas Hamozon with Kavana
— MARILYN N.
🙏 One bracha a day with kavana
— Anonymous
📵 Do not check WhatsApp updates before ברכות השחר
— Anonymous
✏️ Extra phone call to my parents
— Anonymous
📵 Real limits on my phone
— Anonymous
✏️ Asher Yayzar with Kavanah
— Yaakov N.
🤝 Greeting everyone first
— Daniel H.
✏️ Bracha with kavana
— Mijal W.
🤝 A weekly check-in call
— Ruth G.
✏️ One beracha a day with Kabana
— Yehudit A.
✏️ Brachos each morning
— Esty G.
🙏 Modeh Ani every morning
— Faigy G.
✏️ Bekur cholim
— Debby Y.
✏️ Say full shema at night frim text
— Adina L.
✨ One bracha a day with kavana
— Anonymous
✨ Saying Asher Yatzar
— Anonymous
✨ Saying Asher Yatzar
— Anonymous
🙏 Modeh Ani every morning
— Anonymous
🌱 Gam zu l'tovah
— Anonymous
🙏 Saying the berachos on teffilin with kavanah
— Anonymous
🙏 A full tefillah every day
— Anonymous
🤝 Cleaning up my language
— Ruth B.
📵 Try not to say a specific word
— Anonymous
✏️ washing before eating bread
— Anonymous
✨ Modeh Ani every morning
— Anonymous
✨ A nightly gratitude journal
— Anonymous
🤝 Cleaning up my language
— Anonymous
🤝 A lashon-hara-free table
— Anonymous