Sunday, January 25, 2009

Parshat Bo


Come to Beavis. Er, Pharoah. Sorry.

Welcome to Parshat Bo, in which the three final, dark and murderous plagues fall upon Egypt. Storyteller Joel Stanley takes us INSIDE the head of Pharoah to figure out why G-d tells Moses to COME to Pharoah...rather than GO.

This is Episode 15 of the weekly Torah cartoon from HasidicStrip.com. Each week, a different storyteller - some musical, some poetic, some just straight-up, tell the story of the current Torah portion...and then we animate it!

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Parshat Va'eira


It's possibly the best known Bible story, period. A rousing "Let my people go" kicks of weeks of frogs and hail and boils, but Rabbi Katie Mizrahi explains that those weren't even the REAL plagues. ?#@$%

This is Episode 14 of the weekly Torah cartoon from HasidicStrip.com. Each week, a different storyteller - some musical, some poetic, some just straight-up, tell the story of the current Torah portion...and then we animate it!

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Parshat Shemot

A burning bush that talks would probably make most of us stutter, but Moses had a speech impediment even before his divine shrubbery encounter. Why did G-d ask this shepherd "with a heavy tongue" to be a spokeman? Jason Lieberman, an advocate for the contemporary disabled, takes a stab at the answer.

This is Episode 13 of the weekly Torah cartoon from HasidicStrip.com. Each week, a different storyteller - some musical, some poetic, some just straight-up, tell the story of the current Torah portion...and then we animate it!

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Parshat Vayechi


After journeys, revelations, struggles and visions, our ancestors take stock of their blessings in this week's parsha, the last one in Bereshit - closing out the book of Genesis. Marcus J. Freed - poet, teacher, playwright and actor - gives voice - or is that voices? - to the whole thing.

This is Episode 12 of the weekly Torah cartoon from HasidicStrip.com. Each week, a different storyteller - some musical, some poetic, some just straight-up, tell the story of the current Torah portion...and then we animate it!