Reb Moshe Shapiro's Question

An American man who ran an organization trying to help teenagers who went off the dra was once walking in Israel and he noticed Misha Shapiro, one of the great leading Tyra figures in Israel and he noticed him on the other side of the street and he was getting into a car and he raced over to Raisha and right before he closed the door and he asked him, he said, "Remeish, there are hundreds of kids who are going against the religion their parents raised them with in America. Why is this happening? Why are they going off the D?" So Misha turned to him and asked, "Do their parents dance around the shop? Do their parents' faces shine when they recite when they bench? Do their parents sing in the suka late into the night? Do their parents beam with pride as they walk into sharashana? Do their parents lovingly and enthusiastically learn with their children the sweet tyra? Do their parents jump up and dance when they say kilos sulana? Do their parents radiate purity and holiness each and every Friday night? Do their parents put their emotional energy and focus into? Do their parents make a party at every one of their child's spiritual milestones, even the small ones? Looked at this man and said, there is a concept in Jewish law called, which means in Jewish court, the burden of evidence is placed on the person attempting to extract something from the other person. These children, he said, look out into the American secular world and see nothing but pleasure in virtually every direction they turn. parents by forcing a seemingly restrictive religion on them are in the eyes of the child attempting to take that life of pleasure away. It is therefore incumbent on the parents to give the children evidence that what the parents are offering is better. Otherwise, why would those kids give up a life of pleasure for a life following a stale, ancient, irrelevant religion? Those kids don't see Judaism as the desirable option. And quite honestly, with the way their parents present it, who can blame them? And with that, closed the door and drove off. The Tyra way of life is the ultimate way of life. Hashem does not need our service. Then he wants nothing more than to give us good. Is the method in attaining Hashem's definition of good, the ultimate definition. It sometimes takes a few years for that concept to be realized, but it's up to us to ensure that our children see the Tyra way it is meant to be seen. The road map to the greatest existence on the face of the earth. [Music]