This Week's Dvar Torah:
Timeless Jewish Parenting 
The Torah relates how our forefather Avraham involved his son Yishmael in preparing the food for his guests. The Jewish patriarch did this in order to educate him in the observance of mitzvos (Bereishis 18:7 and Rashi ad. loc).
   There is a mitzvah of chinuch , to train and educate one's progeny in their formative years of childhood, despite the fact that the obligation of mitzvah observance rests only upon Jewish adults. This calls for one to train and educate children in the ways of Torah living.
   In the famous words of "the wisest man who ever lived," King Solomon, "Chanoch l'naar al pi darko... 'Train a child in the way he should go; when he matures, he will not deviate from it." (Mishlei 22:6)
   What is the underlining nature of this mitzvah?
 
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Brachos 39a     " Brachos and Backseat Drivers"    
Rabbi Yaakov Berkowitz
    
   In this week's Amud we learned an extremely peculiar story. The great tanna, Bar Kappara, was sitting together with two of his students and was served  
some chicken and cabbage. Bar Kappara gave permission to one of them to make the blessing over the food, helping the others in fulfilling their obligation as well. This student made a
bracha over the chicken causing his friend to "mock" him for saying, in his opinion, the wrong bracha first. He should have said a "hoadama" on the cabbage first.
   Bar Kappara became upset with both of his disciples for different reasons, but they shared a common transgression of " moreh halacha bifnei rabbo" (giving a halachic ruling in front of their rabbi). The commentators discuss in what way they violated this halacha
, and why this was deserving of their consequence,
as the gemara says that neither lived out the year. This topic is a deep and complex one that we will not be addressing in this forum. If you would like to discuss this further, I would be glad to.
   The Pnei Yehoshua (Rabbi Y. Yehoshua Falk 1680-1756) asks what would seem to be a peripheral question on this story. He asks, "Why did Bar Kappara, who was the rebbi in this scenario, not make the blessing on the food himself?" We know the famous Talmudic dictum "mitzvah bo yoser mib'shlucho", it is a 'bigger' mitzvah to fulfill ones obligation on his own without appointing a proxy, so why did he do exactly that here?
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