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

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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.

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