The fox goes into the vineyard hungry – 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’s Fables and in folktales of other cultures, encourages you to consider the consequences of wanting what you can’t have.
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“I’ll tell you a fable. What does it remind you of?”
Fables are folktales with a moral – 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.
Our Sages were acquainted with fables from various cultures; they reworked them and retold them to their students, so as to convey the fables’ messages in a Jewish spirit.
While it’s commonly thought that every fable has a “moral,” 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?
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