
Square card with white and yellow text against blue background. Card reads, "Mitzvah4Pittsburgh. Some spread darkness. We spread light. Choose a good deed. Choose a Mitzvah. Add light to the world," followed by four options and a place for respondents to list their name and email address. Some names and email addresses have been redacted for privacy.
In the days after the October 27 attack, people began leaving objects at two locations outside the Tree of Life synagogue--one at the corner of Wilkins and Shady avenues in front of the Zittrain Gardens, and the other on a private lawn at Wilkins and Murray avenues, just beyond police barricades. Community volunteers moved the entirety of these two memorials inside the Tree of Life building on November 14, 2018, for preservation purposes. Most of these objects including this one were moved to archival preservation over the following year, but a small number were arranged in public display in the windows of the Hailperin Sanctuary Rauh Jewish Archives staff and volunteers dismantled this display on February 16, 2023, and the objects were brought to the archive for preservation. Rauh Jewish Archives staff and volunteers dismantled this display on February 16, 2023, and the objects were brought to the archive for preservation. In response to the October 27 attack, the global Chabad-Lubavitch movement started a "Mitzvah4Pittsburgh" campaign, encouraging people to do a "Mitzvah" (Hebrew for "commandment" and used to denote good deeds) in honor of the victims. Chabad at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa. joined the initiative. Participants signed a card, marking off the good deed they intended to do, such as giving charity, lighting Shabbat candles, and other acts of kindness. Chabad-Lubavitch is an international Chasidic Jewish movement that provides resources for Jewish life on college campuses throughout North America, among its many offerings.