Acharei Mos-Kedoshim - Don’t sacrifice your kids | Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

Hi, this is David and welcome to the para in five where in five minutes we try to give you an idea on the para or in this case parios aos kadoshim. So of course it would uh behoove one to figure out what the word behoove actually means but uh it would behoove one to find something that is in common in both aimos and kadoshim. And I've decided to find something that is slightly obscure and that is of course the Isra of Molech. Molech is a fire god where you offer your child up to Molech. Um Rashi says what it means is there were two fires on either side and you pass the child through the fires. There are other mafarim who say based on the pik which says you burnt your children to a vodor that they actually burnt their children. They would burn their children uh to this god mik. What a terrible thing. And it's both in a mo and kadoshim. It talks about uh the punishments for it and what happens and and the ramifications of it. But it uh needless to say it sounds pretty obscure. Who could ever imagine today somebody uh burning their child to serve in a zara? I heard this idea from usher Rubenstein who was the rashiva of trist many years ago. It was a mash in Mishk. I'll tell you right before that and uh and he spoke about Mo and like we mentioned um two weeks ago on parasi tus whatever we're learning it has to be something we can learn from and if it's something like mole which like I say sounds like a very strange thing it seems like it has to obviously have relevance to our life today so the says an interesting thing your only if you offer up some of your children to mole or one child to Mik. You are not punished if you burn all of your children. Why is that? Because the reason for offering a child up to Molech was that this is something that will cause your other children to be successful. And therefore a parent is sacrificing one child to the fire in order that their other children will be successful. It says that happens all the time today where you see parents are willing to sacrifice one child so that everybody else will be successful. We as parents uh have been given children by a kuresh bar. Some are challenging, some are more challenging. I remember once uh one of the people in discovery you know we used to talk about you know pain and pleasure and different kind of things the greatest pleasures and they would say um uh I would I would ask people what's your greatest pleasure and they'd say my children said what's your greatest source of pain my children so he says one time I I asked this girl I said what is your what's your parents greatest pleasure says me says and That's your parents' greatest pain. My brother, there's different kind of kids, you know, all kinds of different things. But could you imagine sacrificing one kid for the good of everybody else? And unfortunately, we see people do this. And uh you obviously when you have a kid who has special needs or have emotional problems or religious problems, it would be easy to toss them out. so that you're left with, you know, a nice pure family. But parents have obligations to every single child. We don't sacrifice one kid. There are schools and I can't understand how they can justify this where you know they have a kid who's a little weaker and this is a good school for him. But they say unless you send us your other kid who is like an alf kid, a really high level kid, we're not going to take this kid. You're asking me to sacrifice one kid for the other? Yes. Because we want to build up the school and we need it by getting the better kids. Yikes. That's my That's where people sacrifice one kid for the good of the other. I They're all my children. Uh Reverend Hela says she heard a story from her daughter who was in the teachers room and one of the teachers was pregnant. her first child had a lot of terrible disabilities. And one of the other teachers with the sense of tact that only an Israeli could have says, "Aren't you worried that this baby will be handicapped also?" And she said, "They're not my children. They're God's children. And whatever Hashem gives me, I will take and do the best I can with them." So to we are going to do the best with the kids that we have to be able to give them the best experience and help them develop as best as they can. Good chabas.