tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453787673476195995.post7476564050815187034..comments2024-03-19T23:03:01.685-05:00Comments on Beis Vaad L'Chachamim: Toldos, Breishis 27:1. Vatich’hena Einov: The Indelible Influence of Exposure to Rish’us.Eliezer Eisenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16036989084122930226noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453787673476195995.post-23588157810650228212009-11-20T12:51:08.748-06:002009-11-20T12:51:08.748-06:00Akiva, I'm glad you noticed that; every single...Akiva, I'm glad you noticed that; every single thinking parent has to wrestle with that issue. My wife and I have very different ideas about it. She believes in limited exposure (though we used to censor the newspaper's comic strips when the kids were very young), and I believe more in isolation. Truth is, we both more or less agree that you have to build a strong and pure base, and then to judiciously introduce the outside world and help them to deal with it. It's all a matter of degree, of dosage. Thank God, it worked out well for our kids, but I think that's all just zechus avos and my wife's endless prakim of tehillim and tears.<br><br>As for Eisav's phenotype/genotype-- see Tosfos Brachos 10, where the Gemara says that Chizkiyahu saw that the child he would have would be a rasha. Tosfos says that this was a nevuah, not a inevitable outcome of Menashe's innate character; just that the fact was that this was the path Menashe would choose. Is this true with Eisav? I don't know. The expressions about 'zikuch' and so on imply the contrary. I'm not forming an opinion until I see something in a rishon.Barzilaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16036989084122930226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453787673476195995.post-52592338467351308922009-11-20T12:17:04.700-06:002009-11-20T12:17:04.700-06:00"So you have to decide which is better-- that..."So you have to decide which is better-- that your child is pure, an 'olah temimah' like Yitzchak, but unprepared to deal with the inevitable encounters we face in our lives, or that he is safe, in other words not as pure, but stronger in facing religious confrontation."<br><br>As a father of young children I dwell on this constantly. Additional words of advice are welcome...<br><br>AkivaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6453787673476195995.post-85356458845287032622009-11-20T12:07:52.868-06:002009-11-20T12:07:52.868-06:00R’SRH, z”l, lessons on chinuch derived from this p...R’SRH, z”l, lessons on chinuch derived from this parsha seem to rest on the midrash that teaches, obliquely, by way of explaining the reason for Isaaq’s blindness, that he was responsible for Esav’s actions. Is suggests that Isaaq, a man of the fields himself, to some extent, perhaps endeavored to education Esav in the manner or Yaqob, unable to acknowledge the difference in their innate character. But is this the case? Isn’t Esav’s status as a rasha indicated early on by the Torah’s description of his phenotype upon his birth? Or is this a description of potential and in fact the character that we are to associate with ruddy and hairiness could have been tempered? <br><br>Shabbat shalom<br><br>AkivaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com