Is There Any Hope for Chinuch Today?

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Hi, this is Dov Elkins with our question answer series. Key black writes. After hearing show number 302, what's the matter with kids today? What do I do lemaisa? Give up on the hinukh of my kids? Don't have more kids? It was really depressing especially because it's so true. Yes. It is very depressing. And the answer is I'll tell you an interesting story. Rebbetzin Hella says that her daughter Rebbetzin Hella says that her daughter was working in a school. And there was a teacher there who had had a child with very serious handicaps. Physical and mental. And she was pregnant. And one of the other teachers with the tact that only Israelis can muster said to her, "Aren't you nervous that this child is going to be deformed also?" And the woman said to her, "They're not my children, they're Hashem's children. Whatever he gives me, I will be happy to raise." raise." Yeah. I I my mother I'm 67. So, forget about people who are my children's ages, you know. But my my mother used to tell me all the time, "Baruch Hashem, I don't have to raise kids today cuz I don't know what I would do." It's a different world. But the answer is, okay. So, as the rabbi said at the end of Fiddler on the Roof, "Rabbi, as they were being kicked out of Anatevka, rabbi, wouldn't this be a good time for

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1. 0:00Hi, this is Dov Elkins with our question answer series. Key black writes. After hearing show…
2. 0:31Rebbetzin Hella says that her daughter was working in a school. And there was a teacher…
3. 1:01raise." Yeah. I I my mother I'm 67. So, forget about people who are my children's…
4. 1:32rabbi, wouldn't this be a good time for the Messiah to come?" And he said, "Yes,…
5. 2:03Mahalken, but they all had the same use site. You know, there's a certain element of…
6. 2:34stop having children for Shalom. That's what That's what Miriam said to her father, you're worse…
7. 3:04child says no. I just heard somebody speaking about this. He says, "When I was a…
8. 3:34So okay, but that's the reality. So you can complain about it. We can go on.…
9. 4:05And that's it. It's our job to deal Play the spin that we got. You know,…

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