Torah Tale Blog - Guides to Personalized Torah Storybooks

Step-by-step guides and ideas for making personalized Torah storybooks for Jewish children.

  • Parshas Shemini for Kids: The Eighth Day, the Fire & the Kosher Signs - - Parshas Shemini is the parsha of the eighth day, when the Mishkan finally opened and fire came down from Shamayim, and the parsha where Yidden learn which animals, fish and birds are kosher. Here is how to tell it to children, what it teaches, and how to talk about it at the Shabbos table.
  • Parshas Tzav for Kids: The Fire That Never Went Out & the Korban Todah - - Parshas Tzav is the parsha of the fire that never went out. Here is the story retold for children, the middos inside it, and how to explain it to a four-year-old and an eight-year-old at the same table.
  • Parshas Vayikra for Kids: The Small Aleph, the Korbanos & Coming Close - - The Mishkan is finished and standing, and Hashem calls Moshe Rabbeinu by name from inside it. Here is Parshas Vayikra retold for children: the five korbanos in plain words, the small aleph and what it teaches about anavah, how to explain it at different ages, and questions for the Shabbos table.
  • Parshas Vayakhel-Pekudei for Kids: Building the Mishkan & the Cloud - - Vayakhel-Pekudei is the parsha where the Mishkan actually gets built and finished. Here is how to tell it to children, what it teaches about Shabbos, honesty and finishing what you start, and how to talk about it at the Shabbos table.
  • Parshas Pekudei for Kids: The Final Count & the Cloud - - Parshas Pekudei closes Sefer Shemos with a full accounting, a finished Mishkan and a cloud that settles over it. Here is how to tell it to a 4-year-old and to an 8-year-old, what the parsha is really teaching, and questions to bring to the Shabbos table.
  • Parshas Vayakhel for Kids: Shabbos, the Gifts That Overflowed & Betzalel - - Vayakhel is the parsha where the Yidden give so generously that Moshe Rabbeinu has to announce that no more is needed. Here is the story retold for children, the middos inside it, and how to explain it to a 4-year-old and a 10-year-old.
  • Parshas Ki Sisa for Kids: The Half Shekel, the Eigel & the Second Luchos - - Ki Sisa holds the hardest moment in Sefer Shemos and the most hopeful one. Here is how to tell it to a child: the half shekel of fire, the Eigel, the broken Luchos, Moshe davening for forty days, and the second Luchos that came down on Yom Kippur.
  • Parshas Tetzaveh for Kids: Olive Oil, the Kohen's Clothes & the Choshen - - Tetzaveh is the parsha of pure olive oil and the Kohen Gadol's clothing - a gold tzitz on the forehead, twelve stones over the heart, and little bells on the hem of the me'il. Here is how to tell it to a four-year-old and to an eight-year-old, what the parsha is really teaching, and questions that keep it going at the Shabbos table.
  • Parshas Terumah for Kids: The Mishkan, the Gifts & the Golden Menorah - - Parshas Terumah is the parsha where the Yidden are asked to give, and what they give becomes a home for the Shechinah. Here is the story retold for children, the middah behind it, and how to explain it at four and at eight.
  • Parshas Mishpatim for Kids: Everyday Mitzvos & "Naaseh V'nishma" - - Mishpatim is the parsha that takes the thunder of Har Sinai and brings it into the kitchen, the classroom and the schoolyard. Here is how to tell it to a four-year-old and to an eight-year-old, what its middos really ask of a child, and ten questions to bring to the Shabbos table.
  • Parshas Yisro for Kids: Har Sinai, the Aseres HaDibros & Yisro's Advice - - Parshas Yisro is the parsha where Klal Yisrael stands at Har Sinai and hears Hashem give the Aseres HaDibros. Here is how to tell it to a four-year-old and to an eight-year-old, what the middos of the parsha really are, and questions that keep it going at the Shabbos table.
  • Parshas Beshalach for Kids: Krias Yam Suf, the Shirah & the Mann - - Parshas Beshalach is the parsha where the sea splits. Here is the whole story retold the way it is taught in a frum home, plus how to explain emunah to a four-year-old and an eight-year-old, and ten minutes of Shabbos-table talk that actually works.
  • Parshas Bo for Kids: The Last Makkos, the Korban Pesach & Leaving Mitzrayim - - Parshas Bo is the parsha where the makkos end and Yiddishkeit begins: locusts, darkness, makas bechoros, blood on the doorposts, matzah baked on shoulders, and the very first mitzvos Hashem gave Klal Yisrael as a nation. Here is how to tell it to a four-year-old and to a ten-year-old, and what to ask at the table.
  • Parshas Va'eira for Kids: Four Promises, the Frogs & the First Makkos - - Va'eira is the parsha where Hashem's promise starts turning into action. Here is the story told the way children hear it in cheder, the middos inside it, and how to explain it to a four-year-old and an eight-year-old at the same table.
  • Parshas Shemos for Kids: The Basket, the Burning Bush & Moshe - - Parshas Shemos opens Sefer Shemos with a family that became a nation, a baby in a basket, and a bush that burned without burning up. Here is how to tell it to a four-year-old and to an eight-year-old, what middah it teaches, and the questions to ask at the Shabbos table.
  • Parshas Vayechi for Kids: Yaakov's Brachos, Ephraim & Menashe - - Vayechi closes Sefer Bereishis with a grandfather's hands on two boys' heads, twelve brothers who become twelve shevatim, and Yosef telling the brothers who threw him in a pit that he is not angry. Here is how to tell it to a 4-year-old and to a 10-year-old.
  • Parshas Vayigash for Kids: Yehuda Steps Forward & "Ani Yosef" - - Vayigash is the parsha where the secret breaks open. Yehuda steps forward to save Binyamin, Yosef clears the room and says two words that change everything, and a father who mourned for twenty-two years hears that his son is alive.
  • Parshas Mikeitz for Kids: Pharaoh's Dreams & the Seven Cows - - Mikeitz is the parsha where the waiting ends. Two dreams wake Pharaoh in the middle of the night, Yosef is rushed out of prison, and everything he was told years earlier begins to come true. Here is how to tell it to a 4-year-old and to a 10-year-old, plus questions for the Shabbos table.
  • Parshas Vayeishev for Kids: Yosef's Dreams, the Coat & the Pit - - Parshas Vayeishev is the parsha where a family falls apart and Hashem is quietly holding it together. Here is how to tell it to a 4-year-old and to a 9-year-old, what to say about the brothers, and the questions that turn it into a real Shabbos-table conversation.
  • Parshas Vayishlach for Kids: Yaakov Meets Eisav, the Malach & a New Name - - Yaakov Avinu comes home after twenty years and has to face Eisav. He sends a gift, he davens, he prepares to protect his family, and on the night before he is left alone and struggles with a malach until dawn. Here is how to tell Parshas Vayishlach to a 4-year-old and to a 9-year-old, plus questions for the Shabbos table.
  • Parshas Vayeitzei for Kids: Yaakov's Ladder, the Stones & "Hashem Is Here" - - Yaakov Avinu leaves home alone, sleeps on stones, and dreams of a ladder reaching to shamayim. Here is Parshas Vayeitzei retold for children, the middos it teaches, how to pitch it to different ages, and questions that keep it going at the Shabbos table.
  • Parshas Toldos for Kids: Yaakov, Eisav, the Bechora & the Brachos - - Two brothers born the same day who grew up to want completely different things. Here is how to tell Parshas Toldos to a four-year-old and to a ten-year-old, including the part parents dread being asked about.
  • Parshas Chayei Sarah for Kids: Rivka at the Well, the Camels & Chesed - - Parshas Chayei Sarah is the parsha where a young girl at a well waters ten thirsty camels for a stranger, and becomes a mother of Klal Yisrael. Here is how to tell it to a 4-year-old and to a 10-year-old, what the middah really is, and questions to bring to the Shabbos table.
  • Parshas Vayeira for Kids: Avraham's Tent, the Three Guests & the Akeidah - - Vayeira is the parsha where Avraham Avinu, three days after his bris, runs out into the heat to bring guests into his tent. Here is how to tell it to a 3-year-old and to a 10-year-old, what to ask at the Shabbos table, and how to handle the Akeidah gently.
  • Parshas Lech Lecha for Kids: Avraham Avinu's Journey, the Tent & Emunah - - Parshas Lech Lecha is the parsha where Avraham Avinu is told to leave everything familiar and go, and he goes. Here is how to retell it for a 4-year-old and an 8-year-old, what middah to pull out of it, and questions that work at the Shabbos table.
  • Parshas Noach for Kids: The Teivah, the Animals & the Rainbow - - Parshas Noach gives children a boat, a flood, a dove and a rainbow, and one quiet question underneath all of it: what do you do when everyone around you is doing the wrong thing? Here is how to tell it, how to answer the hard parts, and what to ask at the Shabbos table.
  • The Simchas Torah Story for Kids: Hakafos, Flags & Finishing the Torah - - Simchas Torah is the day we finish the Torah and start it again the same morning - and then dance with it closed. Here is the story for children, the lesson underneath the dancing, and how to explain it at every age.
  • Parshas Bereishis for Kids: Creation, Gan Eden & the First Shabbos - - Parshas Bereishis is where the Torah begins: Hashem creates the world in six days and rests on the seventh. Here is the story retold for children, the middos it teaches, age-by-age explanations, and Shabbos-table questions parents can use this week.
  • Parshas Ha'azinu for Kids: Moshe's Song, the Eagle & Remembering - - Parshas Ha'azinu is a song - Moshe Rabbeinu's last shirah to Klal Yisrael. Here is the story retold for children, the eagle Rashi that kids remember for years, age-by-age scripts, and Shabbos-table questions you can use this week.
  • Parshas Ki Savo for Kids: Bikkurim, Two Mountains & Saying Thank You - - Ki Savo is the parsha of saying thank you out loud. Here is the story retold for children, the middah of hakaras hatov, age-by-age explanations, Shabbos-table questions and a bikkurim activity you can do today.
  • Parshas Ki Seitzei for Kids: The Parsha With the Most Mitzvos - - Ki Seitzei holds more mitzvos than any other parsha in the Torah, and most of them are things a child can actually picture: a nest on a branch, a railing on a roof, a lost coat on a bench. Here is how to tell it, teach it, and talk about it at your Shabbos table.
  • Parshas Nitzavim-Vayeilech for Kids: Everyone Standing Together - - On the last day of his life, Moshe Rabbeinu gathered every single Yid - leaders, water-carriers, women and small children - and brought them into a bris with Hashem that included every generation still to come. Here is how to tell Nitzavim-Vayeilech to a child, what it teaches, and how to talk about it at the Shabbos table.
  • The Rosh Hashanah Story for Kids: Shofar, Teshuvah & the World's Birthday - - Rosh Hashanah is the day Hashem is crowned King and the whole world is judged - and Chazal teach it is also the day Adam HaRishon was created. Here is the story retold for children, the lesson behind the shofar, age-by-age wording, and questions for your Yom Tov table.
  • The Sukkos Story for Kids: The Sukkah, the Four Minim & Simcha - - Sukkos is the Yom Tov a child can touch - schach overhead, a lulav in his hand, meals under the stars. Here is the story told the way it is taught in a frum home, plus age-by-age explanations and questions for the Yom Tov table.
  • The Yom Kippur Story for Kids: The Second Luchos, Teshuvah & a Clean Slate - - Yom Kippur is the day Hashem forgave the Yidden after the cheit ha'egel - the day Moshe Rabbeinu came down the mountain with the second luchos. Here is how to tell that story to a child, what to say at different ages, and how to make the day feel hopeful rather than heavy.
  • How to Create a Personalized Torah Storybook for Your Child (Step by Step) - - From a single photo to a printed keepsake - here is exactly how to turn your child into the hero of their own Torah adventure, with real screenshots of every step.
  • How to Choose the Weekly Parsha for Your Child's Book - - This week's parsha, a birthday parsha, or the story your child already loves - here's how to choose a portion that will make the book truly special.
  • The Best Personalized Jewish Gifts for Kids (Birthdays, Upsherin & Yom Tov) - - A gift that teaches Torah, celebrates the child, and lasts for years - why a personalized storybook beats another toy for the next simcha.