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Zalman Velvel

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Description:The idea for these novellas appeared one summer day in 2004. "Zalman," the Rebbetzin asked me on shabbos, "would you tell a story to the campers?" The campers were a group of eighty Hasidic girls, ages ten through fourteen, and their counselors, ages eighteen through twenty. They were spending the summer at our synagogue's sleep-away camp, Chayalot. "A story?" I asked. "What kind of story do you want me to tell them?" "Well, it's shabbos, so tell a shabbos story ... or a story about the weekly Torah portion ... or a story about Israel. Come on, Zalman. A Jewish story." "I'm not prepared," I protested. She looked at me wide-eyed. "How many stories have you written, Zalman?" "Over a hundred." "And you can't remember one of them to tell the girls?" I picked up the challenge by bluffing - I stood in front of the girls and asked questions. I finished by telling them about a friend in Israel who was so rich, that instead of wearing the common black fedora of a Hasid, he wore a brown hat. It would have been a perfect time to read my story, "The Brown Hat," except it was not in shape for an oral reading. "Not in shape?" you may be thinking. "Just take out a copy of the story, Zalman, and read it!" Sorry, fair reader. There are basic differences between a written and an oral story. First and foremost, an oral story is not just any written story you read out loud. If you are concerned with your audience, you can't bury your face in the pages while you mouth the words. An oral story has to be acted out, with lots of dialogue so your audience can see your face, hear the different characters, and react to your expressions, tone, and emotions. Second, you don't have a lot of time to capture attention. Your audience is not sitting in an easy chair by a fireplace. An oral story has to grab the audience with the first few sentences, and hold that attention like a starving bird trying to swallow a fish. Third, you better stick to the rules of drama and heighten the stakes, or the attention you grab will dissipate rapidly. And forget about those big, ten dollar words while you’re at it. You’re using spoken English, where a fancy word can kill the mood you set up when someone in the audience whispers to their neighbor, “Psst … Hey! … What does inebriated mean?” So by accident, I found myself in a different role than a story writer, where I had a safe distance between me and my audience. No, we were going to be up close and personal. I was apprehensive, and at the same time, challenged to create something those Hasidic girls wanted to listen to. I started by adapting some of my stories where the theme tested Jewish values. I spent the better part of a week doing this, while my wife and I were supposed to be on vacation in the mountains of North Carolina. Each day, my wife went out alone, shopping for "chotzkies", of which she has an endless desire to cram onto the walls, shelves, nooks and crannies in our home. I stayed back at our rental, reading my stories out loud, editing as I read. When we returned home, when the time arrived for me to read a story to the Camp Chayalote girls on shabbos, I could not do it. I bowed out with an apology.Why? Because I remembered one of the fundamental principles about public Know Thy Audience. Those eighty sweet, innocent, trusting faces … faces full of hope, needed to be strengthened for the challenges that were sure to come, not tested. They would be tested plenty when they were older, surrounded by a world that wanted to mutate their immutable values.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Rabbi's Daughter and The Rabbi's Son and The Goldberg Family Conversion. To get started finding The Rabbi's Daughter and The Rabbi's Son and The Goldberg Family Conversion, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 169

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Zalman Velvel Inc

Release: 2012

ISBN: 1620959100

Description: The idea for these novellas appeared one summer day in 2004. "Zalman," the Rebbetzin asked me on shabbos, "would you tell a story to the campers?" The campers were a group of eighty Hasidic girls, ages ten through fourteen, and their counselors, ages eighteen through twenty. They were spending the summer at our synagogue's sleep-away camp, Chayalot. "A story?" I asked. "What kind of story do you want me to tell them?" "Well, it's shabbos, so tell a shabbos story ... or a story about the weekly Torah portion ... or a story about Israel. Come on, Zalman. A Jewish story." "I'm not prepared," I protested. She looked at me wide-eyed. "How many stories have you written, Zalman?" "Over a hundred." "And you can't remember one of them to tell the girls?" I picked up the challenge by bluffing - I stood in front of the girls and asked questions. I finished by telling them about a friend in Israel who was so rich, that instead of wearing the common black fedora of a Hasid, he wore a brown hat. It would have been a perfect time to read my story, "The Brown Hat," except it was not in shape for an oral reading. "Not in shape?" you may be thinking. "Just take out a copy of the story, Zalman, and read it!" Sorry, fair reader. There are basic differences between a written and an oral story. First and foremost, an oral story is not just any written story you read out loud. If you are concerned with your audience, you can't bury your face in the pages while you mouth the words. An oral story has to be acted out, with lots of dialogue so your audience can see your face, hear the different characters, and react to your expressions, tone, and emotions. Second, you don't have a lot of time to capture attention. Your audience is not sitting in an easy chair by a fireplace. An oral story has to grab the audience with the first few sentences, and hold that attention like a starving bird trying to swallow a fish. Third, you better stick to the rules of drama and heighten the stakes, or the attention you grab will dissipate rapidly. And forget about those big, ten dollar words while you’re at it. You’re using spoken English, where a fancy word can kill the mood you set up when someone in the audience whispers to their neighbor, “Psst … Hey! … What does inebriated mean?” So by accident, I found myself in a different role than a story writer, where I had a safe distance between me and my audience. No, we were going to be up close and personal. I was apprehensive, and at the same time, challenged to create something those Hasidic girls wanted to listen to. I started by adapting some of my stories where the theme tested Jewish values. I spent the better part of a week doing this, while my wife and I were supposed to be on vacation in the mountains of North Carolina. Each day, my wife went out alone, shopping for "chotzkies", of which she has an endless desire to cram onto the walls, shelves, nooks and crannies in our home. I stayed back at our rental, reading my stories out loud, editing as I read. When we returned home, when the time arrived for me to read a story to the Camp Chayalote girls on shabbos, I could not do it. I bowed out with an apology.Why? Because I remembered one of the fundamental principles about public Know Thy Audience. Those eighty sweet, innocent, trusting faces … faces full of hope, needed to be strengthened for the challenges that were sure to come, not tested. They would be tested plenty when they were older, surrounded by a world that wanted to mutate their immutable values.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Rabbi's Daughter and The Rabbi's Son and The Goldberg Family Conversion. To get started finding The Rabbi's Daughter and The Rabbi's Son and The Goldberg Family Conversion, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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