When her father passed away in 2006, Linda Cohens busy life as a mother, wife, and entrepreneur came to a screeching halt. She took a spiritual sabbatical to work through her grief, and she came out of it resolved to embark upon a project: perform one thousand acts of kindnessmitzvahsto honor her fathers memory.1,000 Mitzvahs shares Cohens two-and-a-half-year journey from sorrow to inspiration through simple daily acts of kindness. She presents each mitzvah as a short vignette, and the myriad forms they takefrom helping the elderly to donating to good causes to baking and collecting food for othershighlight the many ways in which one person can touch the lives of others. As she pursues her quest, Cohen finds that her life is improved by these small actsthat every time she goes out of her way to do something good for someone else, she enhances her own well-being.More than a touching story of a daughters love for her father, 1,000 Mitzvahs is a testament to the transformational power of kindness, and a call to arms for those who would like to follow in Cohens footsteps with their own mitzvahsno matter how large or how small.