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Shining,
This review is from: Why the Moon Only Glows (Hardcover)
As the author of this 29-page book notes in the forward, this lovely story is based on the Midrash of Rabbi Solomon ben Isaac, known as Rashi. The great 11th century French teacher answers the question of why, if God made two great lights --- one to rule the day and the other the night --- He made them large and small.God created the moon and sun the same size, Rashi explains. But then the moon objected to being equal in size to the sun. For this lack of humility, God reduced the moon's size and its shine from a blinding light to a soft glow. In this story, two children ask their father why the moon appears smaller and less bright than the sun. Their father, Abba, answers in a lovely rhymed poem that teaches even small children to be happy with what they have, and not to begrudge others their good fortune. --- Alyssa A. Lappen |
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Why the Moon Only Glows by Dina Herman Rosenfeld (Hardcover - Nov. 1992)
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