Raising Children: Our Most Important Production - Rabbi Yitzchak Botton

[Music] let me ask you guys a question the bass I make - what is it modeled after no madam what is the basicness modelled after so the rom ban one of the great mystics and Jewish leaders says like this surprisingly now homologous explains that the bet hammock - this holy edifice which is the the prime Jewish symbol is modeled after something else that predates the base something - what is it Sarah's tent Sarah's tent had three unique miracles it had candle lights that were lit from week to week bread that was blessed in the miraculous way and a cloud that represented God's presence with Sarah in that tent these three symbols we find in the best emic - as well the menorah that we lit in the better English is those lights they left him upon him in the showbread represents the colors of sorrow and the divine presence that absolutely rested in the matter McDonough Shekinah corresponds to the cloud that will represent the God's presence by Sarah's tent so the model of the base images after all Sarah's tent the paradigm the prime example of what a Jewish mother is and what it means to have a home and that that home is this nucleus that home is the foundation of the Jewish people she raised it looking at home and Rivka comes into the story now and is going to raise Yaakov and a servant at home succeeding with Yaakov to be the choicest of our forefathers and the Jewish people eventually come from Yaakov and again it all comes from that home the Jewish home and that's the idea of the importance and the power of women and their important role which is even beyond our role it's their job to raise the next generation of tsadikim and let's learn and that folks a little bit about what it means to raise that next generation in McGillis Esther it says that more high raised Hadassah Hadassah is also Esther she's the heroine of that story she's the righteous woman that kind saves the day over there so the tourists is that mortar hi who was not her actual father model I was her uncle more I raised Hadassah and the word for raised is all men all men is olive of memnon the root word of a man is the same letters for the word emunah and Mona is also a loafer memnon and Mona means faith raising a child means not just physically providing max riding clothing and food and even intellect but more than that it's it's it's reaching the soul it's raising the child from the ground up and giving them everything they stand on which is what they ultimately believe in when more hi Raisa dasa - the woman that she became he raised her to know Hashem to know that what Hashem wants from us in this world to follow in our shams ways to be a good person a giving person he raised her in that respect and that's the same idea that Sarah raised did suck and Rivka raised Yaakov and that is ultimately the most important role our most important production in life is our children not whatever project we're working on not that building this building or that building you know we build buildings in Egypt that's an easy we were slaves to power and we built many buildings and those buildings collapsed our real job is to build children and make sure that they stand and stand and build the next generation of children that's ultimately what we're here for our most important production is our children we start with ourselves because it's sometimes we're also children start with ourselves but then take that learning experience of building ourselves to the man we want to be the woman we want to be and now raise our children to what we hope that they should become and when it's done right child and parent have a share a certain agreement in what what's what is a good what what kind of man and woman we should become when the desert cannot right so then you can have differences of opinion now there is room for individuality I'm not taking away the idea that there's room for individuality but the core the core principles that we exist on that we live on and live for that doesn't change we're not going to read the final we're not going to change your wheels from its circular shade to a different shape though we all agree that a wheel is perfect the way it is and the the Mendel's of life in Judaism we all agree are correct and perfectly were there because they're for my share I'm not from us it's our job just to follow them and so when there's the right connection between parents and child then there's an agreement on those fundamental core beliefs and then there's room for individuality as well that's more - hi oh man at Hadassah what I raised her [Music] [Applause]