The Shema in the Mezuzah

Sandy Eisenberg Sasso

Description

In a divided world, where the one who shouts the loudest often gets the most attention, a story about compromise and listening. "Standing UP!" "Lying DOWN!" What were the people to do? They decided to ask the rabbi of the town. “What are we to do?” they asked. “Shall we put the mezuzah standing up or lying down?” The townspeople have mezuzahs but cannot agree on how to put them up on their doorways. Should they place them horizontally or vertically, standing up or lying down? To end their arguing, they consult the wise rabbi of the town, who advises them to carefully read the Shema in the mezuzah to find the answer. With this lively tale, based on a twelfth-century rabbinic debate, best-selling, award-winning children's author Sandy Eisenberg Sasso helps young people discover that there is often more than one solution to a problem, and that living together and creating “home” requires cooperation and listening to one another.

Sujets

• Juvenile Nonfiction
• Philosophie et théologie
• Shema
• Secular Jewish culture
• Shema Yisrael
• Judaism
• Religion
• Chema Israël

Informations

• Publié par: Turner Publishing Company
• Date de parution: 13 janvier 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781580237093
• Langue: English

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For my grandsons: Darwin, Ari, and Levi, with love.
—SES

To fifty years of joy and blessings: My husband Jeff’s fiftieth birthday, the Kellers’ fiftieth wedding anniversary, and the Rothenbergs’ fiftieth wedding anniversary.
—JRK
In the twelfth century, the great Torah commentator Rashi and his grandson, Rabbenu Tam, had a disagreement about how to place the mezuzah on the doorpost of the home.