Our Story
It is our hope that by focusing on charitable activities that were important to Yehuda, his life will be honored with everlasting blessing.
The motivation for starting this organization was the unique personality of a boy named Yehuda Mond who in his short life of nineteen and one half years, influenced so many of his family and friends. The challenges Yehuda presented helped those around him learn about unconditional love, unending patience and the enormous strength that lies within each of us. If these qualities could be harnessed to help those less fortunate, those that society is quick to judge, then it could serve to bring out so much virtue in so many people. It would benefit those who receive as well as those who give, those who give of their money and those who give of their time. By facilitating this through Yad Yehuda, we can thereby elevate the neshama of Yehuda and assist in the causes that were important to him in his life time.
Since the organization’s inception, there has been an outpouring of community support through donations and the involvement of dedicated volunteers. It is through the combined efforts of so many that Yad Yehuda has been able to help so many and impact the community in such a positive way. Yehuda’s family is grateful to all those who have helped make the Foundation’s name synonymous with chesed.
Rav Yosef the son of R’ Yehoshua had a glimpse of the World to Come and was asked what he had seen. “I saw an upside down world,” he replied. “Those who were uplifted in this world were lower in status and those who appeared lowly down here have a greater status in the World of Truth.”
ל’’נ יהודה אריה
בן יהושע יקיר
It is said that some can have a greater impact on this world from heaven than while living in this world.
Yehuda Mond was an exceedingly unique and creative individual. His brilliance and exceptional sense of humor betrayed an unusually accurate perception of all those around him, while injustice was an enigma to his sensitive soul. He was happiest when he was one with nature, especially spending time fishing alone or with very close friends. It was simply the beauty of casting his fishing line over the perfectly still waters and watching as the ripples created by the line radiated further and further until they reached the shore and its point of stability. This image, when conjured in one’s mind, can be translated into the ripple effect of giving and bringing goodness to people. This ripple continues and eventually begins to take on a life of its own.
The ripple effect created by Yehuda’s exceptional vision can transcend the fact that he is no longer with us. We pray that Yad Yehuda be able to accomplish all of the noble goals set out in it’s mission and that, through the organizations actions, a ripple effect of increasing goodness be created here in our world and thereby allowing Yehuda’s special neshama rise to great heights in heaven.