The Honey Bee and the Apple Tree: A Rosh Hashanah Story

What happens when a friendly little bee sets out in search of a new home? Fly along and find out in this sweet Rosh Hashanah story! A heart-warming illustrated story about a beloved Jewish tradition.

Meszler, Joseph B

Religion & Spirituality

Prospective Press

Courageous Candles: A Hanukkah Story

Lighting all the Hanukkah candles is an important job, and it only gets bigger every night. Will the shamash-helper candle melt under pressure? A heart-warming, illustrated story of faith and courage about a beloved Jewish tradition.

Children's Books

Reizes, Joelle M

Growing Up & Facts of Life

The Sukkah in the Storm: A Sukkot Story (Jewish Holiday Stories)

Sukkot, the original autumn festival of thanksgiving, was celebrated in huts or tabernacles in ancient times. The tradition of celebrating in a sukkah ("soo-kah") is kept by the Jewish people around the world to this day.\nBut what happens when a hurricane blows through?\nShare this story of how we help each other and rebuild when the storms of life strike.

Two Dinosaurs at Shabbat Dinner (Jewish Holidays)

Two dinosaurs-one an optimist, the other a pessimist-meet to share a Shabbat meal. As the food is eaten and the evening progresses, can the positive dinosaur, a tovasaurus, convince its pessimist friend, a kvetchasaurus, to see the brighter side of the meal, their time together, and life as a whole?

Animals

The Misshapen Hamantasch: A Purim Story (Jewish Holidays)

Holidays & Celebrations

"Who is wise? The person who learns from everyone, as it is said, 'From all of my teachers I have gained wisdom' (Psalm 119:99)" (Pirkei Avot 4:3).
This quotation of Shimon Ben Zoma can be extended to mean that everyone has something to teach and something to learn. If this is true on an individual level, it also is sound for Jewish students of different denominations and backgrounds and people of different faith traditions learning from one another as well.
This guide invites you to take advantage of the embarrassment of riches presented to the learner of Torah (the Five Books of Moses) in the 21st century. Orthodox Jews can learn from Reform and Feminist Torah commentaries, and Progressive Jews can grow in consciousness from studying Hasidic texts and Rashi. Today, there are many kinds of Torah commentaries available in English, and the most open-minded and open-hearted way to approach Torah learning is an "all of the above" approach.This guide will help the person who wants to engage in the study of the Torah portion of the week and use multiple Torah commentaries from different backgrounds. This approach has been tested in a Jewish Day School setting as well as synagogue and has been found to be deeply rewarding.
In this guide are selections in Hebrew and English of a section of each week's Torah portion and guide questions, directing you to the Jewish denominations' main Torah commentaries you will commonly see in the pews. It also directs you to other mainstream Torah commentaries (even one written specifically for teens), and it includes page numbers to make looking up answers efficient. The idea is that you will sit with a friend, this guide, and the volumes referenced here and look up different the guide questions in the various books. You will then have your own questions and probably become distracted by other topics as they come up. Next thing you know, an hour will have gone by as you have been lost in Torah study. You will then hopefully gain new appreciation that people of different Jewish religious backgrounds all have something to to teach each other, and we can increase ahavat yisrael - love of the people Israel - in the world. And we can all be united by Torah study. We can follow Hillel's direction: "Love your neighbor as yourself. That is the whole Torah, now go and study!" (Babylonian Talmud Shabbat 21a)
All translations are from Sefaria.org and are in the public domain.

Go and Study: A Pluralistic Guide To Using Different Torah Commentaries

Paskin, David

Christian Books & Bibles

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The Honey Bee and the Apple Tree: A Rosh Hashanah Story

Courageous Candles: A Hanukkah Story

The Sukkah in the Storm: A Sukkot Story (Jewish Holiday Stories)

Two Dinosaurs at Shabbat Dinner (Jewish Holidays)

Two Dinosaurs at Shabbat Dinner (Jewish Holidays)

The Misshapen Hamantasch: A Purim Story (Jewish Holidays)

Go and Study: A Pluralistic Guide To Using Different Torah Commentaries