Do Children Get Punished For Parent's Secular Environment? (5 minutes)

[Music] so thear says that although the Torah has a couple of verses that say that the banim the sons are not going to suffer for the parents' sins thear says the opposite thear says that actually there are cases that the sons or daughters will suffer for the parents sins so how can we explain it the answer is is that thear explains if the son or daughter repeats the parents sins if they repeat the parents sins then they get punished for both if they don't they get rewarded for not why why is it our fault because hm put himself put a piece of himself inside you inside you is a piece of hem meaning there's no such thing as a person who doesn't have a conscience there's no such thing you may have evil intentions you may have desires you can't overcome but nonetheless everyone has a cons everyone knows the truth everyone knows inside us we all know whether it's right or wrong everyone knows no one in their right mind thinks that murder is a good thing to do you don't need to Torah for that no one in their right mind thinks that stealing is a good is a good sign of a positive person of someone that's honest no one thinks such things you don't need a Torah for that so Hashem told us I put a piece of myself inside you to make sure that you have this conscience and the reason why is because even if you see your parents sinning you're going to know it's wrong so you're not going to be able to go up to shamim after 120 and say hey my father was a sinner so I continued his ways my mother was a sinner so I continued her ways there's no such thing there's no such excuse and the reason why is because if you look at some of the major sages some of the major Personalities in our Torah they didn't exactly come from the greatest families if this excuse would have been a good excuse in sh then ter would have been viewed as an idol worshipper would have been viewed as a good father but in reality he was an idol worshiper until he did chuva until he did chuva he was an idol worshipper but nonetheless AB ainu could have used the excuse and said listen my father's not only an idol worshipper he's the Walmart of idol worship he sells all the idols so I have an excuse why do I need to become monotheistic didn't use that excuse another example is that there was a person that his brother was a giant a giant in righteousness his father was g bigger giant his grandfather even a bigger giant but he there's a verse in the Torah it says his name was as and God specifically says him I hate him what do you mean killed Jews killed he doesn't say he hates him killed Millions doesn't say he hates them a lot of people were Wicked doesn't say he hates them but I I hate him why is as worse than thean worse than worse than anyone in history why because asav knew the truth asav knew his brother was sadik jakov his father sadik his grandfather abah all the reasons in the world to do good but he still chose otherwise he still chose otherwise the fact that he knew and still didn't do that's whyem only allowed his head to be buried in and not the rest of his body because his head knew Torah his body just didn't do it and for that my friends we need to understand that we go up to sh there's no excuses there's no excuses because we have both arguments in the Torah ones that had bad parents and ones that had good parents in both cases you have the opposite happening wasn't exactly the best best but his son was AB why AB had the conscience and he realized the truth is I'm sticking to him but you're going to go in Fire doesn't matter you're going to go on Fire doesn't matter go in Fire doesn't matter I'm going with the truth why my conscience tells me that's what I have to do that's theit I'm sticking to itav my father is a sadik he's a rabbi my grandfather's a rabbi everybody's father's a rabbi okay what about you he's in G what about you no but my father your father's not going to help you your grandfather's not going to help you all the only thing I can help you is you are you going to be or you going to be yov that's your choice we all choose to be yov [Music] [Applause]