Pass On The Jewish Tradition to the Next Generation - Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

je [Applause] in it's well known that in the early part of the 20th century many Jews came over to this country from Europe or Jews who had already been in this country and they had great sacrifice for Torah observance and the performance of Mitzvah and yet they were not successful in transmitting these values and this sacrifice to their children it is well known that Raa Feinstein explained this phenomenon based on the fact that often these parents would remark it's so difficult to be a Jew so children yes would see their parents perform the mitos with great sacrifice but when they would hear the parents say how difficult it is to be a Jew the child says okay if it's so difficult then who needs it it's important for a child to see not only the sacrifice of the parent but that the parent is forming the mitzvas with joy with happiness because otherwise it's not transmitted for the tah to be transmitted to the Next Generation children have to see the Vitality in mitzvas to be Jewish and joyful but conversely imagine if a child would see how happy how excited how enjoyable Mitzvah are to a parent how enjoyable the learning of Tyra is to a parent imagine what wonderful Generations we would produce in fact one of my favorite alltime stories is a story recorded in one of my favorite books it's called Tales out of sh by Rabbi Emanuel Feldman he writes that when he was a young boy he came down on a morning and his father was pouring over a big gamara was learning gamarra and as he's coming down his father remarks to him and now this is a young boy who had later become one of the great rabim in America RAB Feldman his brotherson Feldman rash so you could imagine the impact their father had on them these two great rabim his father remarked to him he said Mela the learning the T it's so enjoyable it's so delectable it's so interesting it's so Gish when a parent speaks that way and even more importantly when the child sees how enjoyable to mitz voice is to the parent then the child says this is something I want I like happiness I like sweetness I like excitement and then the t is transmitted to the Next Generation a Judaism that's Jewish and joyful is one that will be transmitted and will be vibrant and will be passed down until the end of time hi everybody it's Arya fingerer and welcome back to the Jewish and joyful podcast there are many more incredible guests and content coming soon so please follow subscribe for more our podcast is available on all streaming platforms like to thank R mura for the Revolutionary project that Chang in the world the Hebrew English mura and to receive brief inspiration of beautiful Advent sh sha stable subscribe to par knowledge by emailing par knowledge gmail.com or you can visit par knowledge.com for more information please to the show notes thank you for listening and have an amazing day