*From:* David Levy *Sent:* Wednesday, November 18, 2020 11:57 PM Thank you all of AJL for author showcase event
Thank you Lisa Silverman, Heidi Rabinowitz, Jackie ben Efraim, and Sylvie Schaffer. "B"H" after bis hundert und zwanzig/lemeah ve-ezreim.... Hopefully we will all in "the beyond words" and beyond the `atid' of the future tense <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/libguides.tourolib.org/afterlife__;!!KGKeukY!k1YLXH_aEnuqCmE67R6O3lfKQqrOZrOLhXhcd5lVJLBB-Ju82CoTY1Ul33pxKMgj$> (az yashir) be feasting on "the wonderful whale of all the children's author's stories" presented by the young people's authors as represented in the feast of leviathan <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/libguides.tourolib.org/ld.php?content_id=17386661__;!!KGKeukY!k1YLXH_aEnuqCmE67R6O3lfKQqrOZrOLhXhcd5lVJLBB-Ju82CoTY1Ul3-HgWkVf$> alluded to by Jacqueline Jule's in her terrific story "the generous fish" that recalls Yosef who stored up all his savings to enjoy dag biyom dag, only to find a gem inside the fish. I thank the childrens authors for their generous whale of a stories from whom I learned so much! Thank you for keeping and nurturing the "child within" alive as La Fontaine's *Les Fables* shows children's lit is just as much importantly for adults as for children, to learn from. Todah rabbah to all the children's librarians and children's and young people authors out there, who like shifra and puah are saving Jewish children in their synagogue, Jewish day schools, and various library environments and writing important stories for the next generations- Jewish messages in the bottle. Fiction with a pedagogic-theological-and ethical purpose of sustaining the next generations of jewish children to remember the jewish past, live the jewish present, and trust in the jewish future. These children's author's and Jewish young people librarians are godsends doing Hashem's work- in relaying torah, as even fish who are surrounded in water (torah) will swim to the surface to appear to drink each extra drop of rainwater, when in fact the children's authors are surrounded by water (torah)! I did not feel like a fish out of water, although I appreciate the children's librarians and authors bringing me to the light of the surface of the sublime water's of understanding in better understanding of understanding, the divine mission, purpose, and calling these amazing young people authors do. Sent from Outlook <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/aka.ms/weboutlook__;!!KGKeukY!k1YLXH_aEnuqCmE67R6O3lfKQqrOZrOLhXhcd5lVJLBB-Ju82CoTY1Ul33GGfVle$>
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