The Morality of Doing Good – Make the World a Better Place!

Torah teaches that every act of kindness that a person does is like a pebble dropped into the water. Its good effects keep spreading and growing, reaching people and places that the person never could have imagined. That's why you don't have to be a politician, a movie star or a champion athlete to make the world a better place for all mankind.It all begins – and then continues – with doing a good deed for someone else. As we learn from the story of Joseph who was imprisoned in Egypt, giving a caring good word to someone who's down can bring redemption to yourself, to your family, to your nation, and to the whole world. That is the way G-d works through our selfless good deeds, and He usually accomplished that behind the scenes.As it says in Psalms 136:4, "[Give thanks] to Him Who performs great wonders alone, for His kindness is eternal." One of the meanings is that G-d alone knows the wondrous miracles that are sparked by a person's act of kindness.