18 November 2011 - Yeshiva College

The Chinuch crucible is not just the measurables in our homes. It depends on the variables of
generations long gone and continents never visited.
Possibly this is why the Torah registers the birth of Rivka immediately preceding the death of Sarah.
Perhaps that is why Yitzchak brings Rivka, his wife to be, into his mother’s tent. Immediately the
miracles that occurred for his mother occurred for Rivka. Perhaps this is all an indication that it
takes a shtetl to raise a child. It takes a history as old and as wide as the world itself.
Perhaps this opens a new page in Chinuch challenges. Perhaps we are not always our most kind
and patient and uplifted selves; indeed sometimes we might even struggle with our morality.
However, there is no doubt an Avraham somewhere in the family who is davening passionately for
all his family.
We would do well to incorporate within our Chinuch and family vision all the refined and noble and
just and pious people that people our family tree and our relationships. We don’t and we should not
fight alone. Bring along David Hamelech and Avraham and Sarah.
Good Shabbos
Rabbi Avraham Tanzer
Rosh Yeshiva
Dads, For An Inspiring Uplifting Tefillah.
Please join our Davening each morning
Mesivta 06:45 Tichon 07:30
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CANDLE-LIGHTING TIMES
Candle Lighting – 6.15
Ends – 7.11
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