Our Sages Showed the Way, #1 By Yocheved Segal

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For the past fifty years Our Sages Showed the Way has had a prominent place on the bookshelf of the Jewish home This classic has been published in nine languages and thousands of Jewish children worldwide have been brought up on its famous aggados stories from Chazal The secret behind the magic of these stories appropriate for a broad spectrum of ages lies in their authenticity The legendary writer Mrs Yocheved Segal ah was able to craft the aggados into meaningful and captivating stories without deviating from the words of the Sages In her unique style she was able to draw the young reader into the essence and heart of each story so that the teachings of our Sages would be understood In her position as a supervisor of preschools for many years Mrs Segal who was an outstanding example of truth kindness and fear of Heaven identified the need for children s literature that would reflect and exemplify original Jewish content Thus the series of Our Sages Showed the Way was born She organized the stories according to topic from both an educational and moral aspect and was meticulous in expounding them using the commentators on the Talmud May this edition of Mrs Segal s timeless tales bequeath today s young Jewish readers with the same delight and satisfaction that was benefitted by previous generations Our Sages Showed the Way 1This book was very fun and also engaging to read but it would be a little bit engaging if the stories would be a little bit longer so I give this book 4 stars out of 5 The major question raised in the book is how the great heroes of the jews rabbis and people who had a strong faith in God managed to reach the level in what they were like a rabbi in a storie that even dreamt with God and in that way he could talk with God or communicate with him so the level of faith they had was very huge and I really don t understand how they managed to do that This book relates to my hero s journey and not just to me but to every Jew because just as they had faith in God we too maybe not be at the same level but we do have faith in god and could always try to be our best version of ourselves There are 2 stories in particular that I really loved and those are An uninterrupted prayer and Rabbi Tarfon and his mother because the first story talks about how someone didn t stop to pray even for a prince because he knows god is important and the second one is about how the rabbi really honored his mother even if he needed to risk something for the good of his mom he would do it This book also changed me as a reader because it made me passionate for reading by reading so interesting things I just wanted to finish reading the book in 1 week or less And I think this book will be great to recommend it to my friend jaffa so that she could also start to be passionate about reading Our Sages Showed the Way 1