Leket - gleaning the fields

It is a mitzvah in the land of israel to leave the corners of your fields to poor people.  So today we did exactly that. We went to a field and picked lots of tomatoes that will go to people who cant afford to buy food. we went with an organisation called leket http://www.leket.org/english/ . Lots of the other volunteers there were Americans, we were the only Australians.  we filled 4 crates in an hour and a half.  some of them were really squishy and yukky, but we left them in the field.  Our hands got really dirty, but we had fun.  They gave us tshirts afterwards.  It was really really hot and we were so sweaty after. After that we met Ariela's mum because she lives nearby to where we were picking.  We had lunch with her.  Then we went around Rehovot.  My great grandmother's family set up the town and we found an arcade named after my family the Charlap family

                                                        My dirty hands after harvesting tomatoes

                                                                        The Charlap arcade we found in Rehovot