Rav Itshak Cohen : " ASSUMER DE TEMPS EN TEMPS VOTRE RÔLE DE PARENTS "

Is this a real movement? >> It's madness. >> Real? Yeah.

>> But there are 1500 who voted, that's huge out of 2.2 million, not even here. >> The advantages. >> There, there isn't one, in their country there is nothing. >> There's nothing, go in.

>> No, no, the worst thing is that in their country there is no voting. >> Zakarour, the coffee. >> That's it, toaba, they brought me the coffee, everything is good this morning . Hoping for good news.

Well. We remain cautious but hoping for good news. God is with us, God willing, for this morning. >> This morning, well, it's a country that is in the hands of God.

Anyway, I've always been used to saying that we are in a country that is just about... >> The French, they interviewed them, they said, "Ah, we are waiting impatiently for Bibi to be out and the left to get in." >> For the left to get in, for the left to get in. >> But...I think something happened in the world, that the world population is starting to understand that the left has only brought evil, evil, evil, bad things. >> And that, and that...no, no, no, the worst is that the left, which claims to be democratic, is the worst dictatorship, the worst.

It doesn't support anyone, it doesn't love anyone, though. No, no, it loves the...no, the left, the left doesn't love the population of its country. The left loves the enemies. Do you hear what I'm telling you?

The left doesn't love the population of its country. The leftist doesn't like the population of his country, he likes the country's enemies . It's a concept, eh. It's a concept.

Well. >> What is there this morning? >> Ah. Okay.

>> Ah, ah, okay. Razakobar. Ladies and gentlemen, Bokertov this morning. Bokertov.

Bokertov. Bonov this morning. Come on, a very short moment of Torah. After that, we're off.

Come on, we have things to do today. I would just like to give you, before starting, before starting with the Parashah, the message of the Parashah, I will start with what our master the Ravid says. He says that ...There is a duty to have children, it's the life that...When someone has children, what are they called? Parent in Hebrew.

>> Horim. Word. What word does it come from? You don't realize, they call you from school.

Eric ben Moshe, Hore, you are the parent. Hore, vi, hora, it comes from the word teaching, Moreh. We never realized that the word in Hebrew "horé," which means...which means nothing in French, but in Hebrew there is a root for every word, "milon" teacher, teacher in "Mor" there he said ...but that the father and mother, their function is not simply to be progenitors, but to teach the children. And it's scary when you hear that word, horé in Hebrew, horé, a parent, comes from the word moré.

a teacher, teaching when you have children life takes on meaning he brings the joy of having children, yes with the struggles , ah the struggles, and the worst is the one who thinks that the day he marries off his children, he is getting rid of them. Ladies and gentlemen, I announce to you this morning, you are dreaming. We are attached to them, to their problems, to their success, to their life our whole lives. But that is life.

He tells you, children are life. These words touch me enormously. Thanks to children, there is an eternity to your time in this world through them. There is an eternity through them.

My father, he left this world. But I know that I am continuing what he would have wanted to continue. There is a continuity to life. He says, you will see where I am going today, children are life.

He says if, God forbid. Listen closely to these words, it's frightening. If there is a bad decree in heaven against the father or the mother and sometimes unfortunately one of the parents must leave this world. There is an angel who comes and says it is true that this person must leave this world but they have children.

They need him. These children do not deserve to live without a father and without a mother. We, we add life to parents thanks to children. Children are a struggle, it's a blessing.

There are parents who, according to their actions , according to their deeds, should live in poverty. But they brought children into the world whose souls need wealth to grow in this world. There are, there are souls that need not to be anxious. There are souls of children who need to live well.

It is in their soul. But the parents, it was decided that they should not earn, they must be poor. He says one thing perfectly thanks to this child who is to live in wealth and Vomer. He says, coming out of here, that bringing children into the world, it’s not that it costs a lot, it’s perhaps them who bring to you, they are the ones who bring you the parnassah, he brings back, he well, well, he brings back more.

He brings back, he brings back. Can I tell you one thing? The problem of our life today, ladies and gentlemen, may God be with you. Total protection, total protection.

Mazal, zivug and all that and may you hear, all your loved ones, because you are here listening to words of Torah. You are not listening to nonsense this morning. Can I ask you one thing, Eric? To God, is there importance in the education we give our children or not?

How do you know? Does God protect us, favor us because we educate our children in the path of the Torah? Yes or no? Where is it written?

It is one of the Torah. you shall teach your children. But no, but one second, one second. Does, does the fact that you have children, and it's a struggle, does the fact that you enter a...you enter a phase of your life where from the moment you have children, you start educating them in the path of Jewish values?

Is there, is there a reference in the Torah? Does God, from that point on, protect you? Are you protected by God or not? How do you know?

There is a verse in this week's Parashah. At the moment of this week's Parashah, at the moment when God decides to destroy the city of Sodom and Gomorrah, he says one thing, can I hide this from Abraham Avinu? I must go see him to tell him that this is what I am going to do. I must not hide from him the plans for this world.

I am going to go tell him. for Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all the nations of the earth will be blessed. Well, that's good. And there, and there is a verse that will floor you.

Ki yedativ. I translate the words ki yedativ as because I knew him. God says I know Abraham, the daat. Except that Rashi says that the word daat here does not mean to know at all.

Rashi says, it is an expression of love. When , when Adam, when Adam came close to Eve to have children, it is written Vayeda. Adam knew Eve. What is the word "he knew"?

No, it's not "he knew". He fell in love with his wife. In two words, Rashi, when he says "Ki Yidativ, " because I know Abraham—it's not "I know him," it's "I love him." I love him. Listen to me carefully, ladies and gentlemen, it is the first time in the Torah and the last, where God says about a human being that He is in love with him.

"Ki Yidativ"? I know him, I love him. Rashi says it is an expression of love. Like with Ruth, where it was written "Moda Ishah," a dear friend of her husband, it was Boaz .

Why does God say about Abraham Avinu that He loves him? Why does God love Abraham Avinu? He loves Abraham Avinu. God loves Abraham Avinu.

Why does He love him? I don't know, because Abraham is a great tzaddik, because he passed the trials? Yes or no? No, it doesn't say that at all.

He continues the verse . I love him. Do you know why I love him? "Lema'an" Listen, ladies and gentlemen, because life is not easy every day with our children.

But listen , I beg you, and young couples who are starting to raise children, ask yourselves a real question. Will God help you? Will God love you? Listen, I'll tell you one thing, God says "I love him, Abraham, I love him, I love him." A live declaration of love.

Why? Because he commands his sons and his household after him to keep...the way of the Eternal. To do righteousness and justice, "Lema'an." God tells you, do you know why I love him? Because Abraham had...and Olivier, Olivier is passing by, where are you going?

>> Huh? >> Ah, listen to me well, listen to me well, he couldn't find a cheap excuse, Olivier, tomorrow I'll bring you croissants, you stay with me. >> Olivier, have a good day, aren't you ashamed? You're leaving me, what a catastrophe.

Listen to me well, ladies and gentlemen, we get up in the morning with our children, our teenagers and problems, and we have to see that He tells you, "You know what?" I love you. I love you because you are fighting. I love you because you are fighting to pass on the values of the Torah and the mitzvot to your children. Listen to me well, Eric, there is never again in the Torah that God will say this, not even about Moshe Rabbeinu, not about anyone.

God said, "I love him." Because I love him. Rashi says "Lashon Hibah," it is a language of love. I love him. Do you know why I love him?

He is there every morning and he is there every Shabbat and he is with his children and she is with her children and she wears herself out and she makes food for the children and she gives them a home, this woman, for the children, and she kills herself for them. You see, God adores this woman. There is nothing greater, listen to me well, listen well to what I am saying. It is dramatic.

We are looking for God's love now. God's love is like when someone is in love, they are head over heels. They are crazy, they do everything. They do everything, they don't look, they do everything.

They are, they are in love, they don't look at the other's faults. When you are in love with someone, how does it go, eh? When we were in love with our wives, did we see our wives 'faults? Ladies, when you were in love with your, you were in love, well I hope you are still in love, but I say it in the past tense , when you were in love with your husband, when you first met him, did you look at his faults?

>> No. How can we get God to be in love with us? I’m telling you here, it’s madness. Those women, it's those who are there every morning at home, the snacks, the snacks, I remember the snacks, the meals, the snacks, and I remember those snacks, those meals when the children were small.

The snacks, the meals, the stuff, the shopping, oh, you say "Yeah, it’s normal, it’s normal, they're my children, I have to. " And you know what God says? You are building a home for these children so that they follow God's path after you. I am in love with you.

And from that moment on, listen to me well, I don't look at anything else. I am with you. I will help you in everything you do. We call that the education of children.

Why does the education of children hold such a huge place in the people of Israel? That is where God said to Abraham our father, because you transmit to your children the values of the Torah and I love you. And here, he brings back an extraordinary thing. The Hafraim, have you heard of the Raim or not?

>> A little bit, eh? The Raim says, stop, stop, here, listen, listen, the...It's honey, the Raim, it's honey. That we say words in his name and that you listen to words in his name, may his merit be with you. He says: "Yet, yet, there were great tzadikim who were before Abraham, who preceded Abraham." For example, he mentions Noah; there was one called Methuselah, a great tzadik; there was Shem.

We know well that, uh, Isaac our father studied and Jacob studied in the Yeshiva of Shem, and Shem, the son of Noah, and they didn't educate their children. There is no one who educated them. They didn't educate their children in...There is no one. Tell me, do you know any descendants of Methuselah today?

Do you know any descendants of Noah? Well, I don't know, but he says, he says it with his own language; his language is like gold. He says, he says it, it's surely true. There were great ones in Abraham's time; he was not the only one .

They had levels, the degree of prophet, a prophet like Moses, as it is said, or Melchizedek of Salem. There was a king named Melchizedek, the king of Salem, which would later become, the word Salem would later become Jerusalem . It is written in the Torah. He is a great, he is a priest of God.

A priest of God. Melchizedek was Shem, Shem was the king of Jerusalem. As he says, that they gathered around him to listen to the voice of God. So, may I ask you a question: what came of him?

There is nothing. He tells you of Noah. A family of these people who could serve, but afterwards, there was nothing. And why?

Did the Torah reveal the reason to us? Because these people were focused on the divine service of their own person toward God. But Abraham our father, but Abraham, he was someone who was in love with God, to such an extent that the Torah called Abraham...God said: " Abraham, my love." He had a new conception; he said: "And after me, what will there be?" The others didn't say that; the others said: "We serve God." Like, unfortunately, some fathers who are focused on themselves, not their children. He tells you, Abraham our father has a reflection.

Ladies and gentlemen, this reflection is overwhelming. Because man, no one will live forever. Ladies and gentlemen, you young people of today, we too, 40 years ago, were young. Today, we are slowly heading towards old age, and we know that one day we will leave this world.

But you, young ladies and gentlemen who have children, do not forget that time will pass very quickly and you will find yourselves in your sixties and a bit older, at 70 years old. And so, Abraham our father asked himself a question. He said, "If the day I leave this world, all the values I have learned will be nullified.""The name of God will disappear.""Hashem’s Kavod, the prestige and honor of Hashem will disappear because after me, well, there will be no one left." That is what happened with others. You, Richard, perhaps you knew like I did, generations where in synagogues there were only old people.

Did you experience that in Paris? Oh, you didn't know that, you're a young one. Generations. L-listen to me well.

You go to the synagogue. Now if you ask the old folks where their children are, I remember back in the 70s and 80s, well, the children were studying medicine, doing this, doing that, so they didn't come to the synagogue anymore. Those people lived for themselves. When they were gone, they no longer existed.

It was finished. Their values came to an end. The children and grandchildren didn't keep anything at all, nothing, nothing. Neither Shabbat, nor customs, nor holidays, nor Passover, nothing.

Because those people had worked, so to speak, for themselves. Those people, they had worked for themselves. Abraham our father asked himself a question. " And after me, and after me, and after me, my God, after me, what?""I am going to work, I am going to feed children, I am going to kill myself for them.""They will wear me out, they will wear out my wife's life.""They will wear us out."" But, but after us, but after us, who will there be?""Who will continue, who will perpetuate the values?" There was only one.

He says the one who asked himself this question was Abraham our father. The others, their work was for themselves. Ah well, for me, it's me. And after me, there is nothing.

Abraham our father invented this concept. "And after me who is there?" and he tells you And he is the one who invented the concept that we call today education. It didn't exist. It didn't exist.

The guy, he was discovering God, he was discovering Him for himself. He didn't bother anyone and he practiced his religion. Now, today, we are facing a dilemma, ladies and gentlemen. Facing a dilemma.

Sometimes I tell people this, and it sends a chill right through their hearts. When you get old, will you have children who respect you like a Sefer Torah? Like a Sefer Torah? Because in the Torah, it is written that a parent is a Torah scroll.

They won't throw you away into abandoned nursing homes. When I see abandoned parents, I, I die, I die. But for that, you need a conscience. For this conscience, you need a fear of God that tells you your parents are for the rest of your life, you die for them.

You must die for your parents. You must die for your parents. That is written in the Torah. Everything, everything for your parents.

Yeah, but you won't find that in the, you won't find that in the newspaper. You won't find that in Le Parisien, will you? This is in the Torah, that no matter how your parents are, you must respect them. Ladies and gentlemen, wake up.

As long as you are young and have children, don't just give them food. Don't, don't, don't spend your time thinking only about the material, because one day, the spiritual will resurface. And then, either there will be something extraordinary, or there will be, or there will be total darkness. My building is full of parents, people who are 80 years old, they are alone.

I have never seen a child, not on Shabbats, not on holidays, not ever. Never anything, no one. The children have gone off to live their lives elsewhere. The parents are left behind, respect for parents.

But that is going to require one thing. Today, where you are, not tomorrow, what will happen? Today, where you are, are the values there? And there, God tells you, God tells Abraham our father, I love him.

It's not the word "dat," it's "I love him" because he succeeds in fighting, he kills himself to transmit the values of God to his children and his grandchildren after him. Now, can I tell you one thing? Unfortunately, unfortunately, the Western world developed, and retirement homes and care facilities have developed. I'm telling you, ladies and gentlemen, go search on Google, don't listen to me.

Were there nursing homes in centuries past? No. Why? Because there were still values.

And so? So we kept our elders at home. We kept them at home just like children. We didn't say, "Oh my, they're old, they bother us, they're here, they're dirty, they're old, they smell bad." We kept them like our children until the end of their lives and accompanied them to their final resting place.

And we invented, because the Western world has no more values. We invented one thing: money, money, money, money, and money. And then, the old people are no longer what? Productive.

We get rid of them. They cost society too much. We get rid of them. Do you hear what I'm saying to you?

But when you have raised children in the Torah, the true Torah, the beautiful Torah, the values, when a child understands that their father and mother are sacred, they will take care of them until the end of their life, until the end of their lives, they will take care of them. They won't take care of them because they are afraid of them . They won't take care of them because it's difficult or not difficult. There is a Torah mitzvah to take care of one's parents until the end of their lives.

But that will depend on one thing. You, when you were raising them, did you focus on the spiritual and on values like Abraham our forefather? What will happen after I'm gone? Abraham our forefather asked himself the question, says Rav Chaim.

After him , what will happen? Will all the values disappear or will they not disappear? Ladies and gentlemen, listen well to what I tell you. You will pay a very high price for it later.

And for that, you need one thing. It's beautiful. Everything I'm saying is beautiful. It's beautiful, there isn't anyone who will tell you, "Oh no, what he said is false." Is it beautiful or not?

But how do we manage to achieve that? And the Rabbi from Brunn, The main point, I'll finish with this. Take it on the chin. Do what you want with it.

Take it on the chin. Yeah. Yeah. I say words like that.

Yes, so that it gets into your head. The essential. The education of children and adolescents. The essential , the essential, the essential, it all depends on one thing, what is it?

Huh? No, no, you have to raise children. How do you do it? The values, the values, the values of the Torah, of the mitzvot , of respect for human beings, for parents, grandparents, for your own parents—how do you...The essence of education is the parents' personal work on their own education.

In other words, he is saying, "Leave your children alone. Leave your children alone. Leave them, let them be. Let them be!

Don't shout, don't yell at home, don't repeat the same thing 100 times. The essence of education is the way the parents themselves behave, right? I didn't understand the connection. If I behave well, he tells you a human being must understand that mom.

And there, he takes you into a dimension that is even more beautiful. You came into this world. You and I, we came into this world with weaknesses and we must repair them. They are part of our neshamah.

And the goal of our goal in, and the goal of our, our mission in this world is what? To repair our soul. We came with a soul, we don't know, we don't know what it has. We came to repair the flaws of this soul throughout our life.

We call that the work of middot, we call that the work of the Torah, of the mitzvot. But what is it? It's our neshamah in this passage through this world; it has several flaws, and you came into this world through your body and this neshamah and the problems you will have , to repair those flaws. And there, he tells you one thing, my friend I don't like it.

How I dislike these words I am going to say right now! I don't like them. Every time you see a flaw in your children, bad behavior, bad way of speaking, anger, midah, anger, selfishness, pride, it should wake you up first. By trying to do real work on your soul by telling yourself that the problems your children have, right, what are they?

They come from us. It's terrible. Me, that, that makes me children, my reflection. They didn't come just as my reflection to crush me or to degrade me.

My reflection, which means in truth, what is wrong with you is what is wrong with them. And often we have problems with our children because our own weaknesses, we find them in whom? In our children. Except we tried to hide them, and in our children, they they reveal themselves.

Darn, I did everything for years to hide this weakness. My son, he brought it right out of me. And then, you get angry at him because what? What Everything you tried to hide, your problems and your failures, your children bring them out.

You have qualities too. Watch out, you have qualities too. Well, that's beautiful. You have qualities too.

Oh yes. Oh, they have them. He says:" I'm giving you the foundation that every parent must understand, because otherwise it's not even worth it, it's not even worth it, we haven't started education. " We're heading for a mess, this life is going to cost us dearly." He says to you: "Listen, education is about giving .

Now, giving, it's even without giving ...doesn't mean giving, I take my hand, I give to you." Giving means there is a transfer between you and me. You are my son, there is a transfer. There is a mandatory transfer. But how will it happen?

The Rabbi tells you. Every point you want to educate your children in, you must have it yourself because you cannot give what? What >> you don't have. Education is, you live, there are things that will be passed on .

If there's nothing to pass on, there's nothing to pass on. If there is trash to pass on, it will pass on. If there are good things to pass on, they will pass on. But be careful, only what you have will pass on.

Because what you don't have, it won't pass, they won't pass. You can't give you can't give someone 10,000 euros that you don't have, you give it to him, where are you going to get them from? You don't have them. So you can only give what you have.

How? Nothing. He tells you nothing. Your life, your way of being, your way of behaving on Shabbat, your way of talking to your wife, your way of talking to your husband, all that will pass on to your children, that's all.

Now, let me explain. If you, madam , call your husband every name in the book, your daughter will call her husband every name in the book. But you , you were lucky, because you have a husband who slowly became deaf and doesn't listen to what you tell him anymore, but she won't have a husband who is deaf, and one day her husband will grab her and throw her down the stairs. That's what I am experiencing today with people.

But she doesn't understand. That's what she lived through with her mother. Wow! Sir, if at home you are violent, vulgar, speak poorly to your wife, there is no kavod, there is no, there is no, there is no, there is no kindness, there is no greatness of spirit, there is none of that.

You are going to raise boys who will be like you; they will go and kill other women, and that's it. And they will perpetuate your problems, they are going to perpetuate them. He finishes and he says a thing that he says that when it comes to values, it's impossible to stage anything. There is no staging when it comes to values.

Any parent who has a fear of God, a moral ethic toward God, a moral ethic toward people, toward their parents, don't worry, don't worry. You don't need to say anything to your children, don't worry, it will happen on its own. You have an extraordinary way of behaving yourself with your own parents. Be quiet, be quiet, don't be afraid.

Don't be afraid. You will see your children, they will do the same thing. He tells you, he says in truth, we see parents who grew up themselves with parents who were, who didn't raise them, they did nothing, they gave nothing. They can't give that to their children.

And only in one case, we know that there are many very intelligent men and women who understood that they had major gaps in the education they had received from their parents and who built themselves up to be able to pass on a good education to their children. What is kavod and I want me to tell you what kavod is, but they built themselves up. Did you notice the word? They built themselves up.

They didn't, they didn't become education specialists. You don't become an education specialist. There is none, there is none, there is none, there is none, there is none, there is none. Your children will be what you are.

Ah, I thought you had to go through training courses. What kind of training? Well, a training course for your head, first of all. A training course for your head.

A training course for how you do Shabbat. How you behave when you come home trashed because you drank all winter and you come home on Shabbat, I don't know what time, and you tear the house apart, your son will tear his own house apart. You'll see. You'll see.

Or if you come home in the evening and you do, and you do, and you thank your wife for the Shabbat she prepared for you. You come home every evening. You tell your wife thank you for the meal. You need some help.

You, you're there, but you don't know what you're really doing when you treat your wife well, when you treat your husband well. You don't even know what you're doing right there. It's, it's not, it's not a lie. You're, your children, they are watching and they are educating themselves.

Do nothing. Just live your life. Live your life well. Live your life well.

You'll see. We're talking about the man himself; one day a couple came to him with a baby and they said to him, Shalom, back in the 30s, can you give a blessing to our son so he becomes a good person? He told them, it's too late. I can't do anything.

A little baby. He says, why is it too late? It's a little baby? He replied, you should have come to me 20 years ago so I could educate you.

If I had educated you well, you wouldn't need a blessing for your child. In truth, the end of the story, he didn't want to mock people or tear people apart, he wanted to teach them one thing: that, in truth, education...listen to me closely, don't ask yourself questions in education: "What did I do to God to have a son like this?" And "What is this behavior?" Do you want me to tell you one thing? And I'll end with these words: I know quite a few people, I

know them very well, I know how they work, I know their flaws. Today, they tell me their kids were driving them crazy, and I want to tell them—but I don't, because unfortunately it’s hard to say—I want to tell them: " They’re acting exactly like you, they’re doing exactly what you do, but you don't even realize it." What’s more, you don’t realize that he brings up something, he w...but at the same time it’s beautiful.

You want to educate your children, change your own life. You, you, leave, leave them alone. Change your own life. Start by waking up in the morning, don't be a slob, don't just throw on your tefillin in 3 minutes and run out of the house.

What kind of value are you giving your children? If you spend 3 minutes with your tefillin in the morning, your son won't even spend 3 minutes; he won't put them on at all. Because you always have to know that a child won't reach the level of his father; he’ll do a little less than his father, he’ll do it, but a little less. But if you do exactly zero, what do you expect from him?

If your Shabbat is a rotten Shabbat, and you sleep all day because you're high, because you haven't had your weed. Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes. Your son is going to love Shabbat? My foot, he won't keep Shabbat.

And you want me to tell you, he’s right, he’s right . Shabbat is a drag. There was one kid who once told me, I remember at school, he told me, "When I hear the word Shabbat, I get sick." You want me to tell that little boy, "Keep Shabbat?" But no, but no, but no. But I’m not here to bring you down, ladies and gentlemen.

I am telling you one thing. Education is very hard. And we, and we don't know how. I can tell you one thing: don't break your head over it.

Leave your children alone. Fix the things that you need to fix yourself. How do you talk to each other? Are there bad words in the house?

The Gemara says, the Gemara is the Talmud. The Talmud. The Talmud says that the words a child lets out of his mouth are what he heard at home. Then you come along and say, "I don't understand the words these kids are using." Hello?

Hello? Go check at home. In almost 100% of cases. No, there are times when unfortunately a child, he takes.

And here I come, give me 2 minutes and I'll finish because it's in this week's Parashah. Abraham, he takes his son to go do what? What is it? Why does he take his son?

To slaughter him. He brings back the Rav that no one asked the question. God tells Abraham, take your son, go slaughter him. He takes his son, he goes to slaughter him.

But for years, I thought he was a baby. And his son, his father took his son. He was 37 years old. Wait, how old are you ?

>> 35. >> 35. You're almost 35. Imagine your father tells you, "Come, I heard a heavenly voice.

We have to slaughter you." But and here, he says, "Rabbi, I don't understand the whole story of the Binding of Isaac. It's Abraham who speaks with God. It's Abraham who organizes it. And he, in this idea, he's not there.

Yes. At the last moment , he says to his father, I don't understand Dad, I don't see the ram. His father tells him," Don't worry, He will show us, "and he arrives and he puts him down and binds him and takes the knife to slaughter him. Hello?

What ? Are you mentally challenged or what? You don't say a word, you don't say" Dad. "I, I don't feel good about this.

Wait wait wait wait wait. You want to slaughter me? Well, why me? Go find someone else.

Nothing. How is that possible? He says one thing, he says that God didn't need to say anything to Isaac to go with his father, his father's voice was enough. His father told him to come, he would have gone with him.

How, how does he tell you there, I'm finished. Lived in a home where the fear of God, the love of God was so great through his father, through his father's life. That for Isaac? It's normal, one doesn't ask questions.

So great was the faith, so great was the love of God that, when his father told him:" My son, God said when you "...slaughter, no question, but he tells you:" OK. "We are not there in this story, we are not going to slaughter our children. Hashem, he didn't slaughter him in the end. But there, the Torah tells you, there in this week's Parashah.

There. Go on, there, everything is there. Parents, parents, parents, parents, parents, parents. I can tell you one thing: when your life is all about money, handbags, vacations, hotels, about earning as much cash as possible, about spending 100 years in the gym.

It's dressing like a teenager. No modesty as a mother . A mother—well, we knew our mothers. Darn, we weren't super religious.

We knew our mothers, Richard. We knew our mothers. Shoot, what's the matter? Yeah .

Yes. But Rabbi, we aren't, we are in a modern world. What is a modern world? Are we going to dress like naked cats?

Are we going to live naked because it's a modern world invented on Instagram? And Instagram is my master; it’s the one that will tell me how to live, how to pass on to my children the values of the Torah and Mitzvot. How, one day later, when I’m old, how will they behave with me? How will my children and grandchildren respect me, or not?

No, no, that’s not on Instagram. Wake up right now. Change your path. Become parents.

Educate yourselves. Frequent a study hall and a Rabbi. You built your life all on your own. What do you think ?

Later, you will wake up. You will wake up when your children are 30, and they will cast you aside like a rag on the floor because they’ll have no respect for you, because they weren't taught respect. Because respect is learned in the Torah, in the Shema, in the fear of God. It’s the basics, respect for parents.

Respect for parents is not found on Instagram. But don't cry about it later, because in truth, you are the problem today. It's that today you aren't acting like a parent. You want to stay young, you want to stay a kid, you want to stay a teenager—that comes with a price.

It comes at a price. It will, it will be paid. It will be paid at some point, it will be paid. There’s nothing you can do.

And don't put the blame on others, on the Rabbi of your community for not educating your children, or on the school for not educating your children. Education does not happen at school. Education does not happen at the synagogue. Education happens at home, daily, every single day.

I wish you a ...Share this day with me. >> Share this lesson with me. Ladies and gentlemen. I love you.

I love you. Share this lesson for me. I beg you. If I had had classes like this 30 years ago, if we had had classes like this 30 or 40 years ago, when they put it right there in our faces: understanding life, understanding life.

We were all young once. You are young today, you'll see how it goes by. You will see how you'll wake up at 50 or 60 years old. I’m the first to say it; I had students at school, they were 14 or 15, today they are 50.

They are approaching fifty. Approaching fifty. White hair, and for my first students, fifty. That's it, I already have old people.

What do you think? What do you think? Life. A friend says that life, life passes by like the shadow of a bird.

When a bird flies in the sky. The bird's shadow. That is life. What do you think?

What do you think? You’re going to stay young your whole life? You’re going to be the hot shot your whole life, huh ? You see?

You will pay for it with your children because our eternity is our children. Our eternity is our children. It will only happen through one thing: us. Through ourselves.

Come on, let’s keep moving forward. We move forward. You will see how things will change at home. We move forward.

We move forward. The conduct, the way of speaking, the way of doing things. You will see, it sinks in all on its own. It sinks in all on its own.

It's scary how it sinks in all on its own. No need to shout, huh? No need to shout . My parents never shouted.

I never heard it. I am the eldest of a family of 11 children, my friend. 11 children, eh, because you guys are tired with three children. You are very tired.

Three kids. Those 11, they never shouted, but their conduct was—if you want me to tell you, true parental conduct, true parental conduct. A true complicity between my father and my mother. You see all that?

You see all that? A way of behaving, my father... honest to God. Behaving in life, in everything, with money, never stealing, nothing.

A real way of behaving. You see that, you—they didn't need to shout at us, hit us—even though back then they did hit—didn't need to hit us, or I don't know, or punish us. We didn't need any of that today. The problems today aren't the kids.

A child is not twisted. A child is not a basket case. Look at the parents. Have a great day.