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I may not agree with some of the big Aveiros mentioned here, and some of the images are highly inappropriate, but for the most part the message is a very true one. Kids do to their peers as is done to them. I wish there was some class we could all attend that would teach young men - and young women - to raise children properly. We often tend to reprimand when not necessary, and overreact when positive reinforcement is all that's necessary.
The scene of the mother screaming at the baby crying in the crib was very disturbing.
ReplyDeleteThe message of the clip is more basic and universal. "Do as I say and not as I do" wiil never work.
ReplyDeleteDer Emes is that the same holds true in bein odom l'mokom. Chazal teach us that the Aibershter does mitzvahs too. All of gma"ch , nay all of taryag, is halicha bidrochov.
Maybe part of the roughness in our frum world today derives from a farkrumta theology. Lacking sufficient hakoras hatov and tovas ayin klapei ma'alah we view HKB"H as (cholila) capricious and unfair (hence the whole cottage industry around "Why do bad things happen to good people?").
As banim lamokom we "children" also "see and do". Tragic problem is that we natter so many whiney ta'arumos klapei ma'alah that what we "see" causes us to "do" in ways that are inconsistent with the Torah's paths of pleasentness, justice and peace.
As we know the tragedies of Tisha B'Av also derive from being makdim peh l"ayin
Is there any significance in that the clip is from Australia? :)
ReplyDeleteaussie aussie .....not just any place in australia but sydney Ir Hakodesh!!
ReplyDeleteThe whole thing is disturbing and oy is it true . . .
ReplyDeletei can certainly identify with tzig. Why isn't a yeshiva education where one learns Torah and chassidus enough to create naturally wonderful parents who know how to rear children?
ReplyDeleteThe question is why did we ever think that it WOULD be enough?
ReplyDeletePatience and love are NOT taught, so why should we have any for our kids?