Richard Rafle, Chair - email to bikkurcholim@tbsofs.org 

Temple Beth Sholom’s Bikkur Cholim Society is almost completely formed. The unique program of TBS Bikkur Cholim Society will be providing hospital and home visits, support services and prayers of health and healing for our community.

The Bikkur Cholim Society is in need of volunteers to visit our congregants when the need arises. Privacy will be respected and maintained for this person/and or family.

Volunteers will be trained. We will have meeting(s) and a handbook to address what may be difficult situations for some people. Training will also assure that we all have the same approach and appropriate skills.
 
A pamphlet with prayers has been compiled and printed and is available now to be left with those whom you visit. Report sheets have been composed and will be printed for the volunteers’ use. The Rabbi and our office staff will be working with us.
 
PLEASE VOLUNTEER by contacting Richard Rafle, Chairman of the Society via E-Mail at: CemeteryChair@tbsofs.org or phone to TBS office(631) 724-0424.

Take just ONE hour from your busy week to volunteer. I look forward to working with you in this great mitzvah.

As you read in another article about the Bikkur Cholim Society being formed, the Society will be providing hospital and home visits, support services and prayers of health and healing for our Jewish community. The Society is more or less in place and has already made several visits.

The Bikkur Cholim Society needs more volunteers to expand the program.

It is nice to have someone from your congregation visit you, in confidence, either by phone or in person, while you are ill. It would be nice for someone from our congregation at Temple Beth Sholom, to visit a loved one when you can’t be there. It would be nice to hear from someone when you or your loved one is convalescing. It would be nice to have a little help with daily chores, perhaps, some light shopping when you can’t get out.

There are two ways to arrange for visits. 1) Call the Rabbi, tell him you are ill and would like a visitor. Rabbi Nesenoff will notify Richard Rafle, who will arrange for a volunteer. 2) Contact Richard Rafle directly by phone (631-499-3478) or fax (631-499-4937) and provide him with  the name of the person who is ill or injured, their phone number, location of that person (i.e. - hospital or nursing home name), your phone number, your name and relationship to the person who is ill or injured. Just two people, the rabbi and the chairman of the society, will have this information, which will remain confidential, if that is your wish. Visits will remain confidential always, even if you chose to tell friends, family or congregation members.