{"id":12528,"date":"2020-01-31T13:40:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T18:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.torontoheschel.org\/?p=12528"},"modified":"2020-01-31T13:40:30","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T18:40:30","slug":"message-from-moreh-greg-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.torontoheschel.org\/news-views\/blog\/message-from-moreh-greg-60","title":{"rendered":"Message from Moreh Greg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, in Parshat Bo, we are reminded about our role as parents in responding to our children\u2019s Jewish questions.\u00a0 In this parshah,\u00a0 the plagues on Egypt become increasingly more severe, culminating in the truly <em>horrific makkot habekhorot<\/em> &#8211; slaying of the first born.\u00a0 The parshah raises many difficult questions concerning Pharoah&#8217;s free will, the extent of the suffering, and the cost of freedom and more.\u00a0 What has always fascinated me about this parshah is that it anticipates the difficult questions it raises.\u00a0 Moreover, it anticipates the children of future generations that will ask these questions.\u00a0 Chapter 12 of <em>Parshat Bo<\/em>, in the Book of Exodus, describes the rituals of Pesach that are to be done to remember the final departure from Mitzrayim.\u00a0 Immediately following the description of the rituals, the Torah states that in the future , &#8220;Your children will ask you, &#8216;What is this ritual to you?'&#8221;\u00a0 I find it truly fascinating that in the very moment the Torah describes the rituals of Pesach, which is the first and most formative collective Jewish ritual, it raises the notion that in the future, children will ask about the meaning and purpose of this ritual.\u00a0 The notion that children will ask questions about Pesach is mentioned four times in the ensuing chapters of Exodus &#8211; paralleling the four questions of the children of the Seder.\u00a0\u00a0 Nothing could be more Jewish than raising questions concerning the meaning and purpose of what we, as Jewish people, do.\u00a0\u00a0 In each generation, parents are challenged to explain to their children &#8220;what this ritual is to you.&#8221;\u00a0 Davka, to <em>you<\/em>!\u00a0 The Torah and the Haggadah give us some guidance on how to answer our children&#8217;s questions.\u00a0 But ultimately, each of us needs to be able to answer it for our own children. \u00a0\u00a0What applies to Pesach, the formative Jewish ritual, applies to Judaism as a whole.\u00a0 This Shabbat, may we each find the wisdom and words to answer for our children what living a Jewish life means to us.<\/p>\n<p>Shabbat Shalom,<\/p>\n<p>Moreh Greg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, in Parshat Bo, we are reminded about our role as parents in responding to our children\u2019s Jewish questions.\u00a0 In this parshah,\u00a0 the plagues on Egypt become increasingly more &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.9 - 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