Monday, June 6, 2016

B'midbar - Conservative

Numbers 1:1−4:20

By Rabbi Bradley Artson, with permission from American Jewish University, for MyJewishLearning.com

What Is Parenting?


Transmitting Jewish culture by embodying Jewish practice is part of the responsibilities of Jewish parenting.


One of the greatest mitzvot (commandments) in the Torah, the very first command given to humanity, is that of bearing children. “Be fruitful and multiply” is the necessary underpinning of any Jewish community, since without renewed Jewish people, there can be no Torah, nor any Judaism either.

But parenting is more than simple biology. Any animal can spawn, and most animals have the necessary instincts to guide their young through a relatively brief infancy before the new generation takes off on its own, guided by its own internal barometer. Humans are distinctive in the extraordinary length of our infancy and youth, the extreme degree of dependence of our young, and by a lack of instincts on which to fall back to guide us in raising our children.

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