A Folktale Retold , Robin Bernstein 91, Kar-Ben, 1998. Frustrated with a house full of confusion and conflict, a village peasant seeks the wise counsel of his rabbi, whose first suggestion is, Bring your chickens into the house. In Bernstein s contemporary version of the tale, the aggrieved party is Abigail, a young girl whose mother has just remarried. Abigail seeks her rabbi s advice, but it s the family s seven bicycles, not chickens, that she is advised to bring into the house. Twenty articles by scholars and advocates examine the problem of homelessness from different perspectives.
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