Wise Jewish Child

The Code of Jewish law rules that from the 15th of Av and on, as the days grow shorter and the nights longer, a Jew should increase his Torah study each night.

The evil inclination says to the Jewish Child: “Aha! Now that the nights are getting longer, you have more time to sleep and relax!”

Answers the Jewish child: “Foolish Yetzer Horah, you are the biggest ignoramus there could be! How could you not know that starting from the 15th of Av the very opposite is true – we must spend even more time learning Torah?! G-d wants to see what I will do when I am left on my own at home and I look outside and see non-Jewish children going to sleep earlier.”

What does a Jewish child do? Every night, he takes a bit more of his own time and devotes it to learning Torah and fulfilling G-d’s commandments.