This week's portion tells the kohanim (priests) that they must educate their children to keep the detailed laws of ritual purity binding upon the priestly families. What is the Torah teaching us about the obligation to educate our children?
Rabbi Mendel Kaplan is the founder and spiritual leader of Chabad @ Flamingo in Thornhill, Ontario, he also serves as a Chaplain of the York Regional Police Service
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May 10, 2012
It Is Extremely Essential
The mitzvah to educate is probably the most important mitzvah of all. I was not educated as a child, like what the kohamin prescribed. But I made up for the lost as a child, to do it as an adult. I got a Master's Degree. and became a regular at a synagogue. At the synagogue, I learned about the content of the Siddur and Talmud, and details pertaining to cleanliness, such as hand washing before meals, and the different levels of kashrut. Learning is a process we go through our entire lives. What can be more essential?
Tum Tum, Washington