1,000 Mitzvahs: How Small Acts of Kindness Can Heal, Inspire, and Change Your Life by Linda Cohen

In order to honor her father's memory after he died, the author decides to perform 1,000 mitzvahs. The word mitzvah can be translated as "commandments" with a root word meaning "attachments." Performing mitzvahs then are opportunities to feel more attached to God, each other, and ourselves.

Cohen organizes the book based on different types of categories such as food, money, driving, animals, gratitude, birthdays, and traveling. She gives different ideas under each heading and provides examples of what she did.

This is a very inspirational, but practical book. It's inspirational in that she shows how even little acts of kindness can make the world a better place. It's practical because the acts of kindness she suggests are very do-able.

As I read this book (which I think is best read slowly and thoroughly), I thought more about what I could do to bring more hope and kindness into the world.