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Monday 14 July 2014

HOLIDAYS

EVERY YEAR WHEN THIS TIME COMES
I ASK MYSELF DO YOU REALLY HAVE TO GO ON HOLIDAYS ? ?
DO YOU THINK IT IS A GOOD THING TO TEACH YOUR CHILD THAT BECAUSE THE NEIGHBOURS GO ON HOLIDAYS SO DO WE HAVE TO ? ? ? 
YOU MUST NOT LET YOUR CHILDREN OR FAMILY FEEL LESS IF THEY CAN NOT DO WHAT THE NEIGHBOURS DO.
I AM NOT TALKING IF G=D FORBID YOU CAN NOT AFFORD IT AND
 MAKE YOUR FAMILY AND CHILDREN FEEL LESS.
I HAD THIS DEBATE OVER THIRTY YEARS AGO WHEN MY BIG SON WAS IN THE BELZER CHEDER WITH RABBI YACOV FIRER WHO WAS THE MANAHEL OF THE CHEDER AT THAT TIME AND WAS EXCELLENT.
I SAID TO HIM:
 " YOU NEED TO TEACH A CHILD (and today I see even grown ups) THAT A PERSON DOES NOT NEED EVERYTHING THE OTHER PERSON HAS AND DOES. "
YOU MUST BE ABLE TO SAY I CAN NOT AFFORD IT AND EVEN IF YOU CAN, YOU NEED TO SAY WE ARE NOT GOING ON HOLIDAYS.
WHAT HAPPENED WAS, THE BELZERS MADE A CAMP AND WANTED  MY SON TO COME WITH. 
I SAID TO MY SON ALL THE YEAR YOU ARE NOT WITH YOUR PARENTS, HOLIDAYS IS A TIME TO SPEND WITH YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER AND LEARN FROM THEM.
I SAY IN YESHIVOS THERE IS NO BEIN HAZEMANIM.
THE NISSAN AND TISHRI TIME IS THE ZMAN YOU LEARN AND SPEND WITH YOUR MOTHER AND FATHER AND LEARN HOW THEY BEHAVE TO EACH OTHER.
HOW CAN THESE YOUNG BOYS AND GIRLS LEARN HOW TO BEHAVE WITH EACH OTHER WHEN THEY GET MARRIED ? ?
THEY HAVE NEVER SPENT TIME AT HOME WITH THEIR FATHERS AND MOTHERS TO KNOW HOW TO BEHAVE WITH EACH OTHER.
IF YOU GO TO THESE HOLIDAY CAMPS IT IS LIKE LIVING ON A KIBBUTZ.
 I HAVE NO TIME TO GO IN TO DETAILS.
THE PEOPLE WHO GO ON HOLIDAY AND CAN NOT AFFORD IT WHAT ARE YOU TEACHING YOUR CHILDREN ? ? 

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