Eli Goldman来自阿斯托里亚。在新冠疫情开始那年,他和大多数人一样居家办公。一次偶然的机会,他得知了意大利一男子从阳台上放下一篮子食物帮助邻居的故事。他从中得到灵感,并开始帮助别人。
Growing up, Eli Goldman has good memories of his family’s weekly Shabbat dinner. His mother would cook for hours preparing food to nourish(养育) not just her own family, but anyone nearby who needed a good meal. The act of feeding others left a lasting impression on Eli, who went on to work as a fundraiser for a non-profit specializing in feeding the hungry.
长大后,伊莱·戈德曼对他的家人每周的安息日晚餐有着美好的回忆。他的母亲会做饭几个小时,准备食物,不仅是为了滋养她自己的家人,也是为了滋养附近任何需要一顿美餐的人。喂养他人的行为给伊莱留下了持久的印象,他继续为一个专门喂养饥饿者的非营利组织做募捐。
Like many others, Eli was working at home at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. That April, he was listening to a story on NPR about Italians lowering baskets of food from their balconies to feed their neighbors. He looked at his own situation, and came up with an idea.
像许多其他人一样,伊莱在新型冠状病毒肺炎大流行开始时在家工作。那个4月,他正在听一个关于NPR的故事,关于意大利人从阳台上放下一篮子食物来养活邻居。他审视了自己的情况,想出了一个主意。
“I realized I could do the same in Astoria,” Eli said. “So I started preparing bread and lowering it in a basket, and anyone who wanted to buy it from the street, could. I would then donate 100 percent of that money.” By May, Eli had moved on from bread to barbecue(烧烤). If someone can’t pay, they don’t have to. It’s just that simple.
“我意识到我可以在阿斯托利亚做同样的事情,” 伊莱说。“所以我开始准备面包并把它放在篮子里,任何想从街上买它的人都可以。然后我会捐出那笔钱的100%。”到五月,伊莱已经从面包转向烧烤。如果有人付不起钱,他们就不必付。就这么简单。
At first, just a few people showed up to eat Eli’s delicious food. Over time, however, word about the good food spread, and soon he had lines of people waiting to purchase his food. Eli realized it was time to expand, so he formed Tikkum BBQ and reached out to community businesses to partner with them.
起初,只有几个人来吃伊莱的美味食物。然而,随着时间的推移,关于美食的消息传开了,很快他就有一排排的人等着买他的食物。Eli意识到是时候扩张了,所以他成立了Tikkum BBQ,并与社区企业合作。
“Tikkun comes from ‘tikkun olam’, which in Judaism, means helping repair the world,” Eli explained, adding that he knows he won’t be able to repair all of the world’s problems with just barbecue, but stating, “To me, that meaning means that it is my responsibility to do whatever I can to help support my community.”
“Tikkun来自 'tikkun olam',这在犹太教中意味着帮助修复世界,” Eli解释说,并补充说他知道他将无法修复所有这个世界的问题仅仅是烧烤,而是说,“对我来说,这意味着我有责任尽我所能来帮助支持我的社区。”
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