The fox goes into the vineyard hungry \u2013 and leaves the vineyard hungry. Was it worth all that effort? This famous fable, which appears in Midrash Kohelet Rabbah as well as in Aesop\u2019s Fables and in folktales of other cultures, encourages you to consider the consequences of wanting what you can\u2019t have.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI\u2019ll tell you a fable. What does it remind you of?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Fables are folktales with a moral \u2013 they convey societal messages or ethical lessons. As far back as Biblical times, both in Jewish culture and in many cultures world-wide, fables played an important role, transmitting societal values and ethical precepts in an entertaining and thought-provoking way.<\/p>\n Our Sages were acquainted with fables from various cultures; they reworked them and retold them to their students, so as to convey the fables\u2019 messages in a Jewish spirit.<\/p>\n While it\u2019s commonly thought that every fable has a \u201cmoral,\u201d sometimes you can derive multiple messages from the same story. Together with your children, think about the fable of the fox in the vineyard: What does it remind you of? What does this fable convey for you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":63177,"menu_order":7,"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":[1318,1322,1208,1351],"distribution_year":[1053],"class_list":["post-71301","book","type-book","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","agegroup-preschool-4-6","book-subject--en","book-subject-legend-en","book-subject----en","book-subject---en","distribution_year-2013-2014"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n