At a wedding feast, Marco the coal vendor \u201cfeeds\u201d his fancy coat semolina cakes, stuffed vegetables\u2014even rice! The astonished guests learn an important lesson about treating others with respect and dignity.<\/p>\n
\u201cLook not at the vessel, but at what it contains\u201d <\/strong>(Rabbi Meir, Pirkei Avot\u00a0 <\/em>[Wisdom of the Fathers], 4:20)<\/p>\n It\u2019s natural to notice people\u2019s external characteristics\u2014how they\u2019re built, how they\u2019re dressed, and so on\u2014but people\u2019s outsides don\u2019t always reflect what is inside: their truly important qualities, that are often invisible to the eye. The famous verse from Pirkei Avot <\/em>reminds us not to judge people by their outward appearance, but to focus instead on their character.<\/p>\n \u201cEat, Coat, Eat\u201d is a humorous adaptation for children of a popular folktale that appears, in different versions, in many cultures around the world. In this version, the story takes place in the Jewish community of North Africa.<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"featured_media":63227,"menu_order":4,"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":[1404],"agegroup":[770],"book-subject":[1318,1264,1271,1274],"distribution_year":[1053],"class_list":{"0":"post-71266","1":"book","2":"type-book","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category----en","8":"agegroup-preschool-4-6","9":"book-subject--en","10":"book-subject---en","13":"distribution_year-2013-2014"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n