One Small Spark & More Than Enough
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🕮 If you're a regular listener, you know I always ask guests for tikkun olam suggestions about ways to repair the world. Well, that's what this entire episode is about. I've got a pair of Jewish activist picture books for you: One Small Spark: A Tikkun Olam Story by Ruth Spiro, and More Than Enough: Inspired by Maimonides Golden Ladder of Giving by Richard Michelson, a story about tzedakah. These are both gorgeous picture books that convey their important messages without being preachy - absolutely worth sharing with the kids in your life to help turn them into mensches.
And a real-world act of tikkun olam AND tzedakah: listener Susan Schwartz Twiggs has become a Book of Life supporter on Patreon. Thanks, Susan!
LEARN MORE:
- Richard Michelson’s author website and art gallery website
- Ruth Spiro’s website
- Borrow or Buy More Than Enough
- Borrow or Buy One Small Spark
- Read-alike suggestions: Ruth Suggests Out and About: A Tale of Giving by Liza Wiemer; Rich suggests The Midnight Mitzvah by Ruth Horowitz
- Bonus content on The Book of Life's Substack Newsletter
- Produced by Feldman Children's Library at Congregation B'nai Israel
- Co-sponsored by the Association of Jewish Libraries
- Sister podcast: Nice Jewish Books
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