Shnayim Yomi - Bamidbar - R'vi'i - #4 - Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff - Spiritual Parenthood

The fourth aliyah of para midbar starts with a very unusual statement. It talks about the generations the children of Aon and Moshe Tot Aon Moshe. And yet if you look at who's mentioned right afterwards it's only the children of Aaron. Why then the rabbis ask and Rashi asks this exact question if it mentions the children of both Aaron and Moshe does it only mention the children of Aaron and Rashi gives such an amazing beautiful answer. Rashi tells us that the children of Aaron were like his own children because he taught them Torah. And so maybe you have one child, maybe you have five, maybe you have 10 or 15, maybe you have no children, but really you have the ability to have thousands and thousands of children. How? Rashi tells us when you teach Torah, when you support Torah, you are supporting not only other people's children, they become your children, too. You get the the merit because the gamarra tells us that the children have the ability through their actions, their mitzvah, their Torah to lift up their parents. So every time you support another organization, you teach Torah to a person on the street, that person somehow becomes your child. What an amazing ability we have to build families who maybe we're not related to by blood, but we're related through Torah and mitzvot.