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Do You Ever Throw Your Child Out of the House? Rabbi YY Jacobson

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Rabbi YY Jacobson

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the parents have to agree, they also have to have a same voice. It's very hard for it to happen. It's impossible, really. But the most important thing is they both have to agree that this son should not die. Even if the father agrees, the mother doesn't agree, it's not going to happen. And and it says that even the last moment, if the father or the mother are mochel him, they forgive him, it's over. The onesh is over. If any one of them forgives him, it's done. The even the last second they say we're mochel. Done. The you can't kill him. So the Shem Mishmuel asks, he says he doesn't understand. Why do we punish a ben sorer u'moreh? We punish a ben sorer u'moreh not for what he did to his parents. What did he do? He stole money, he ate meat like a glutton, he drank wine like a like a glutton, and he didn't listen to his father and mother. You don't get killed for that. It's not murder. You get this capital punishment. The pshat is, as we said, need an old same safer. You're the Torah of the sovei da'as, that the way he's going, he's going to become a thief, he's going to become a murderer. So yom muzak u'mayom shchif, kill him now. Torah predicts he's going

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  1. 0:32the parents have to agree, they also have to have a same voice. It's very hard
  2. 2:39in him or her the koach of Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov. And because of that power,
  3. 4:42the traditions of his father. And Rashi says that Yishmael did Teshuvah at the end. Vayikrevu
  4. 6:47kol? It's impossible. So therefore there's no ben sorer u'moreh. So Rav Shimon Shimon writes, he
  5. 9:26That's what I don't think it's mom it's the same. I mean, a Yeshiva has to
  6. 11:31affected by it or they become actually more powerful. A challenge it is, but to throw
  7. 13:41He could not believe it. He came home one day, they wrote a letter apologizing that
  8. 16:18of him. How can I be mochel?" For God's You're you're you're you're being righteous. He's
  9. 18:28Prepare a soft landing for this kid instead of getting thrown out into the street and
  10. 20:42They didn't, of course, mean to do that. They just They were horribly embarrassed, you know.

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