One morning Isadora Biddlebox awakens to a gloomy day that begins when she gets up on the wrong side of the bed.\u00a0 How do we respond to a bad day?\u00a0 Isadora teaches us all an original lesson in coping with bad moods and annoyances.<\/p>\n
Isadora has a special way of coping with a gray morning: She gets up and does something, she takes initiative!\u00a0 She roars a roar and gets into a rhythm: She plucks, shakes, pushes, bakes and\u2026 eats everything (in a completely impolite manner).\u00a0 She is totally focused on changing the situation to which she awoke that morning.\u00a0 And in the end, she succeeds in changing her gloomy day into a sweet cake!<\/p>\n
The story is rooted in the belief that each one of us has the innate ability for self-improvement and change.\u00a0 The story line encourages parents and children to discuss how they can change their moods and even transform reality by playing an active role and taking initiative.\u00a0 The parent suggestions are accompanied by the saying from the Book of Judges (Shoftim 14:14):\u00a0 \u201cOut of the strong came forth sweetness\u201d (Me\u2019az yatza matok), illustrating how one can turn a seemingly negative condition into something positive.<\/p>\n
\u201cMe\u2019az yatza matok\u201d (Out of the strong came forth sweetness\u201d)<\/strong><\/p>\n Special emphasis and significance is placed in Jewish tradition upon a person\u2019s ability to make personal choices throughout life.\u00a0 When Isadora awakens to a gray day, she chooses to change the circumstances of her day and transform it to something sweet.<\/p>\n \u201cMe\u2019az yatza matok\u201d (Out of the strong came forth sweetness\u201d)<\/strong> is an expression that describes the reversibility of difficult and irritating circumstances, and their transition into positive and strengthening ones.\u00a0 This colorful expression was coined by the hero Samson (Book of Judges, 14:14) and through it, he hinted at having found a (sweet) honeycomb inside the corpse of a lion.\u00a0 (In Hebrew one of the words for \u201cstrong\u201d is \u201caz\u201d.\u00a0 Together with the word \u201cme\u201d, as in \u201cMe\u2019az\u201d, the two words create \u201cfrom the strong\u201d or \u201cout of the strong\u201d, indicating the lion.)<\/p>\n Like Isadora, each one of us has the ability to choose to change the way we look at reality, and often transform even the reality itself!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":65380,"menu_order":9,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"agegroup":[770],"book-subject":[1236],"distribution_year":[1047],"class_list":["post-71178","book","type-book","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","agegroup-preschool-4-6","book-subject----en","distribution_year-2011-2012"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n