Chil­dren’s

The Parasha: Parashat Hashavua for Children

Emi­ly Amrousi; Mena­hem Hal­ber­stadt, illus.

March 14, 2023

It’s fun to read a sto­ry with your par­ents, on Shab­bat morn­ing or before bed — to cud­dle up next to them, to look at the pic­tures, to imag­ine old­en times … It’s excit­ing to dis­cov­er our own sto­ry. The Parasha is the per­fect way to intro­duce chil­dren to the Chu­mash, the basis of what we believe. Retelling all the parashot of the Torah, in order, this series has been enjoyed by tens of thou­sands of chil­dren in Israel, and by pop­u­lar demand is now avail­able in Eng­lish! Emi­ly Amrousi, a well-known jour­nal­ist and chil­dren’s author, has cre­at­ed a sweet, sen­si­tive ren­di­tion of the Torah’s sto­ries, while Mena­hem Hal­ber­stadt has brought them to life with vivid, mag­i­cal illustrations.

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Discussion Questions

Koren Publishers’s deci­sion to trans­late this book into Eng­lish is a gift to the Eng­lish-speak­ing Jew­ish world. Orig­i­nal­ly pub­lished in Hebrew in 2017, Israeli children’s author and jour­nal­ist Emi­ly Amrousi’s retelling of each of the fifty-four parashot (por­tions) of the Torah will cap­ti­vate chil­dren and intro­duce them to the most impor­tant book of the Jew­ish peo­ple. Men­achem Halberstadt’s evoca­tive illus­tra­tions, fea­tured on each page of this five-vol­ume set, per­fect­ly com­ple­ment the text. And Ilana Kurshan’s Eng­lish trans­la­tion is poet­ic and easy to read. Each par­sha ends with child-friend­ly ques­tions per­fect for fam­i­ly learn­ing. Intend­ed for chil­dren ages five to twelve, The Parasha is acces­si­ble to all denom­i­na­tions and will help strength­en every child’s con­nec­tion to Judaism.

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