VIDEO: Toddler’s take on the burning bush – in Yiddish (with subtitles)

Image by Rukhl Schaechter

By Rukhl Schaechter January 6, 2022

To see subtitles in English, start playing the video, then press the CC button. To see subtitles in Yiddish, press the Settings button (looks like a wheel), then Subtitles, then Yiddish.

My two-year old grandson, Leyzer, loves listening to Bible stories. Last week his parents, Naftali and Jessye Ejdelman, quizzed him on the scene where Moyshe Rabeynu (Moses) discovers the burning bush, and realized that Leyzer had a rather surprising perspective on it.

Rukhl Schaechter is the Yiddish editor of the Forward and the producer of the YouTube series, “Yiddish Word of the Day.” She loves cooking, Israeli folk-dancing and talking to her grandchildren.

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