Creating Angels

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Barbara Diamond Goldin currently teaches language arts to middle school students at Heritage Academy in Long Meadow, Massachusetts. She is the author of eleven children's books, including Night Lights: A Sukkot Story, nonfiction such as Bat Mitzvah: A Jewish Girl's Coming of Age; historical fiction such as Fire: The Beginnings of the Labor Movement, and collections of stories, including A Child's Book of Midrash: Fifty-two Stories from the Sages. Her books have received such awards and recognition as the National Jewish Book Award (for Just Enough Is Plenty: A Hanukkah Tale)-, the Sydney Taylor Picture Book Award (for Cakes and Miracles: A Purim Taley, and the American Library Association Notable Book Award for 1995 (for The Passover Journey: A Seder Companion^. She lives in western Massachusetts with her two children.
Creating Angels
STORIES OF TZEDAKAM
Award-winning storyteller Barbara Diamond Goldin has collected and retold twenty-four stories about... Tovább

Fülszöveg

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Barbara Diamond Goldin currently teaches language arts to middle school students at Heritage Academy in Long Meadow, Massachusetts. She is the author of eleven children's books, including Night Lights: A Sukkot Story, nonfiction such as Bat Mitzvah: A Jewish Girl's Coming of Age; historical fiction such as Fire: The Beginnings of the Labor Movement, and collections of stories, including A Child's Book of Midrash: Fifty-two Stories from the Sages. Her books have received such awards and recognition as the National Jewish Book Award (for Just Enough Is Plenty: A Hanukkah Tale)-, the Sydney Taylor Picture Book Award (for Cakes and Miracles: A Purim Taley, and the American Library Association Notable Book Award for 1995 (for The Passover Journey: A Seder Companion^. She lives in western Massachusetts with her two children.
Creating Angels
STORIES OF TZEDAKAM
Award-winning storyteller Barbara Diamond Goldin has collected and retold twenty-four stories about tzedakah in this inspiring volume.
The Hebrew word tzedakah is often translated as "charity." But it actually means something different—it means "justice" or "righteousness." According to the Jewish Sages, tzedakah means we have an obligation to give to those in need—not only when we are feeling generous, but on a regular basis. One talmudic Sage, Rabbi Assi, believed the commandment of tzedakah to be so important that he said, "Tzedakah is as important as all other commandments put together."
Some of these stories are based on oral tales, like "The Two Beggars," which is from Afghanistan, and "The Rabbi's Blessing," which is from Tunisia. Some stories, like "A Town of Baruchs" and "The Rabbi and the Rag Dealer" are hasidic in origin, while others, like "Ox and Herbs and "The Two Keys," are from much older sources. Some of the stories are based on midrashic tales.
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Barbara Diamond Goldin has brought these stories of tzedakah together in the hope that they will inspire the young and the old, the rich and the poor, to give to those in need and to adopt a righteous sensibility and sensitivity akin to the commandment of performing acts of loving-kindness.
By performing these mitzvot, we all engage in tikkun olam—repair of the world—and, according to the Sages, each good deed we perform in the physical world creates an angel in the metaphysical world. This book should encourage readers to create their own angels and to recapture the significance of the mitzvah of tzedakah to the Jewish community, even to the world, today. Vissza