Twenty pages of full-colour art
Bright, warm comic pages that tell a classic Baal Shem Tov story faithfully.
The Baal Shem Tov Stories · Comics · Book 3
A Baal Shem Tov Story for Children · Ages 6–10
It is Sukkos in the town of the holy Baal Shem Tov, and everyone is building a sukkah. Reb Kalman the merchant builds a palace; Berel the woodcutter has only three old boards. The Rebbe sends away the fine new boards his students bring him and builds a small, crooked sukkah with his own hands — so crooked that the greatest scholars of the town open their seforim and come to argue. Then the Baal Shem Tov rests his head on his hand, opens it, and finds a note from Heaven. The story told in Baal Shem Tov al HaTorah, with the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s explanation of why he built it, retold for children in twenty pages of bright, warm comic art, with a Words to Know glossary and a page for parents. Read it together in the sukkah, or give it as a Yom Tov gift.
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Inside the book
Bright, warm comic pages that tell a classic Baal Shem Tov story faithfully.
A short glossary of the Hebrew and Yiddish words in the story.
Where the story comes from, and what to talk about together.
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Paperback · Full colour · 24 pages · 8 × 10 in
It is Sukkos in the town of the holy Baal Shem Tov, and everyone is building a sukkah — a palace for the rich merchant, three old boards for the woodcutter. The Rebbe sends away the fine new boards his students bring and builds a small, crooked sukkah with his own hands, so crooked that the greatest scholars of the town come to argue. Then he rests his head on his hand, opens it, and finds a note from Heaven. The story from Baal Shem Tov al HaTorah, with the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s explanation, retold for ages six to ten in twenty pages of full-colour comic art, with a Words to Know glossary and a page for parents.
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