A Golden Half Calf – By Rabbi Allen S. Maller Everyone was worried that something bad happened to Moses. He had gone up on Mount Sinai more than three weeks ago. He had not yet returned. Each day when Prophet Moses didn’t return more people worried and got more upset. Aaron and Miriam urged people…
Samuel Segal is a bald eagle. Samuel Segal is very regal. This story relates how and why Samuel Segal became a Rabbi. How did Samuel Segal, the regal bald eagle, become a Rabbi? He studied at a rabbinical school just like everyone else who becomes a Rabbi. When he applied to the school, the head…
David the shoemaker was surprised when the king’s messenger entered his shop. And he was shocked when he was ordered to make a pair of Jewish shoes for the king. David protested. There is no such thing as Jewish shoes. There is a Jewish hat called a yarmukah, and there is a Jewish shawl called…
The five boys and girls sitting at the table waited eagerly for the last question. This was the final round of the citywide spelling contest. These five boys and girls had spelled their way through almost an hour of increasingly difficult words. In the previous round they had all successfully spelled antidisestablishmentarianism. They couldn’t imagine…
David was sitting with his grandmother Miriam in the backyard eating cookies when he suddenly asked her. Where do all the prayers go? I mean, I know you say prayers to God but how do they find their way to God?
Story retold by Rabbi Allen S. Maller…
Her mother once gave her a bag of nails and told her that every time she lost her temper or insulted somebody she must hammer a nail into the back of their fence.
The first day the girl hit…
THREE WISE MEN Rabbi Allen S Maller Once three wise men came to the Land of Israel. They had heard about the wisdom of King Solomon and they wanted to test him and see if he was as wise as Jews said he was. When they came to the court of King Solomon the youngest…
Have you ever found a treasure?, I once asked my father. He smiled a big smile and told me this story. That was many years ago and I have never forgotten it….
I love dogs and cats. During my lifetime I have had many dogs and cats as pets. Yet there are two things I never understood about dogs and cats.
First, why do dogs greet people warmly with joyful jumping and tail wagging, while cats greet people like they are doing you a favor; coolly with regal restraint? Second, why are dogs and cats usually not good friends? Why do they fight like dogs and cats?
Adam was all alone. He didn’t have parents and he didn’t have children. He did not even have a brother or a sister to talk to. Adam was all alone. He didn’t even have a friend to play games with. Adam was lonely, and he was unhappy.
God said to Adam, “It is not good for you to be alone….
