JEM has announced an all new Living Torah Children’s Narration – for kids, by kids.
The new narration aims to teach children that the Rebbe’s talks are interesting and contain relevant, important lessons – even if they can’t yet understand the Rebbe’s own words. The narration presents an engaging, audio scene related to the Sicha’s topic, featuring discussions between children and parents, students and teachers, siblings and friends.
Meanwhile, the children have the opportunity to watch the Rebbe onscreen.
This innovative feature comes to Living Torah following the enthusiastic response to the children’s narration in Climbing the Rungs of Prayer, and builds on the feedback from a wide-ranging survey of Living Torah viewers.
This exciting new soundtrack debuts in the current Living Torah disc, Disc 61.
Try it out, and tell them what you think. E-mail Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro, Living Torah’s producer, at [email protected].
these people ae doing a amazing job!
…for educational purposes, learn more about it.
This may not be so popular, but I recently heard from a reliable source, that the famous Olomeinu children’s publication used to have a feature called Mendel the mouse, and the Rebbe asked that they change the character to a kosher one. They soon changed the character to a duck and gave it a new name.
Y is there a big elephant in the Jewish Children’s Museum
are butterflies, insects etc considered not kosher animals. i c many baby girls dressed in clothing with butterflies, does it pertain to clothing too?
Ducks are kosher!
I remember watching the videos of Lag Bomer Parade 5743, with the “Donald Duck” etc. mitzvah props. – My brother, who was there, mentioned to me that you can see the Rebbe didn’t react at all, but soon after, whispered something to Rabbi JJ Hecht. The next parade, they were not to be seen on the floats.. – Again, only an observation, it may not be verified as pshat 100%. The idea, apparently, was not “borrowing” ideas and figures from the goyim, even if they are to be Kosher animals and used for mitzvah props. Does anyone know more in… Read more »
You may be referring to here:
http://www.teshura.com/teshurapdf/Rabin-Weinbaum%20-%20Elul%2020%205759.pdf
Page 43 (of the PDF) and on;
Earlier in the PDF, there’s also a very interesting compilation on all the various details and points the Rebbe made on Tzivos Hashem magazines etc.
I listened to all four of the children’s soundtracks in the new Living Torah DVD and I think that it is a major positive innovation — they may take the content a bit away from the Rebbe’s exact words, but I think that’s what the youngest kids need in order to attune them to the Rebbe’s words. Until they can listen to the real thing, of course.
On a related note, there is a hoiro’o of The Rebbe to an individual not to show children comics with wierd-looking pictures which twist the pure mind of the child. Does anyone have more details when and to whom this was said ?
how wonderfully innovative!
I remember a lot of surprised looks…