Our Family, Our Strength - Principle #7: Priorities - Rabbi Yirmiyahu Abramov

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you we continue on the twenty five basic principles of Jewish child rearing we are now up to principle number seven now children at varying ages are just developing a broader context and a broader way of looking at things but when they're still young they tend to see things in very cut black and white suit fashion they haven't yet developed the capacity of seeing things broadly this is an ability which develops in time and they sometimes can draw conclusions and formulate opinions based on something very very specific a typical example of this if a child observes in the home that inadvertently someone knocks over a bowl of flowers a very flower flowers and everyone shots ofa oh what a terrible tragedy what a catastrophe and someone one of the someone is castigated for for clumsiness so the child sees oh that must be a very important thing wow this child knocked over a bowl of flowers and water fellow I all over the table wow that's something terrible in if people holler at that child so the child begins to get an impression okay that's very important and that gets gets stored away in his mind is that's big stuff and yet we know that's something very minor this is a little incident as a little triviality that happened that isn't something of such big dimensions on the other hand if a child we mentioned the concept of rahat if it solved and if people mumble

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1. 0:04you we continue on the twenty five basic principles of Jewish child rearing we are now…
2. 0:36when they're still young they tend to see things in very cut black and white suit…
3. 1:13someone knocks over a bowl of flowers a very flower flowers and everyone shots ofa oh…
4. 1:44fellow I all over the table wow that's something terrible in if people holler at that…
5. 2:19birkat hamazon raised after meals and they mumble it while looking around while fiddling round and…
6. 3:31the shabbos table which is a great arena for educating the shadows table and the whole…
7. 4:03VAR with a with a joy of performing a mitzvah there's there's singing coming from the…
8. 4:34something spills over appearance clothes and the and and the parent lashes out and makes a…
9. 5:08Hashem is absolutely supreme is the is the number one thing that's the most important thing…
10. 5:42physical material things so the child begins to get the sense of priority so if parents…

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