Ellen Shapiro

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“The Magic Scissors” by Ellen Shapiro

Submitted to Contest #239

The Magic Scissors by Ellen M. Shapiro In the Jewish year 5105, everything in Spain was upside down. People put their clothes on inside out. They wore hats on their feet and shoes on their heads. It was sticky hot in February and freezing cold in June. The cabbages grew big and round under the earth and the carrots grew long and fat facing the sky. One very, very cold night that June, a rabbi named Shem Tov ben Yitzak was getting ready to write a few words of Torah on parchment. He did that every week so he could remember what to sa...

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