Machshava:

Chinuch 

Parsha:

Bechukotai 

Collections: R' Goldin Parenting from the Parsha

Description

We all know the famous Midrash on the opening Passuk in our Parsha about the need to be "ameilim in Torah". The implication of this Midrash is that a necessary component of our Torah learning is the experience of “toiling,” of hard work. Such laboring is not simply an added dimension to our Talmud Torah, but a fundamental and crucial ingredient in the experience itself. At first glance, this seems difficult to understand. If the primary purpose of study is to become knowledgeable in Torah, then the key should be results, not the process. It shouldn’t matter how much I toil in learning, if I put in a reasonable effort, enabling me to be knowledgeable in Torah. Why is there an insistence upon being ameilim in Torah, such that a lack of ameilus would lead to such horrific results? And what can we learn from this regarding Parenting?