The Rabbi Who Flew

by Renate Dollinger

Description

A rabbi prays so deeply that he flies, but the village shoemaker realizes that he must secretly repair the rabbi's shoes so that nobody sees the holes in his shoes when he flies over them.

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Colorful gouache paintings in the author-illustrator's primitive style decorate this story about a saintly rabbi wtih holes in his shoes. The plot expresses the mitzvah of a Jew helping Jew within an idealized shtetl setting.

Nov 19, 2009

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