Mayer Aaron Levi and His Lemon Tree

by Lehman-Wilzig, Tami

• ISBN13: 9789652293695
• ISBN10: 9652293695
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-02-01
• Publisher: Gefen Pub House

Summary

Mayer Aaron Levi lives in a small village. Like his fellow Jews, Mayer Aaron studies Torah and goes to the synagogue three times a day. Unlike everybody else, he also owns a lemon tree. When the lemons are ripe his wife Raizel brews her special lemonade, chills it and puts it in jars so that Mayer Aaron can make extra money for the family by selling it in the town square. Even though Raizel is very possessive about the lemons, Mayer Aaron realizes that they have more than enough. While he finds a way to secretly share the extra lemons with the village's poor people, Raizel thinks a thief is stealing them. The plot thickens as Raizel sits outside guarding the family property, only to find that her husband has a lesson he wants to hand down from generation to generation.

Author Biography

Tami Lehman-Wilzig is an award-winning children's book author, a cookbook author and one of Israel's leading English language advertising copywriters. Her children's books include Hlik Lak, Tasty Bible Stories and Keeping the Promise, which received a 2005 International Reading Association (IRA) Teachers' Choice Award. Married to a university professor, and the mother of two grown boys, Tami lives in Petach Tikva, a suburb of Tel Aviv.