{"id":98437,"date":"2022-11-20T01:18:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T23:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=98437"},"modified":"2022-11-20T01:18:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T23:18:59","slug":"maintaining-the-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/maintaining-the-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Maintaining the Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Maintaining the Legacy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A woman bewailed her bitter plight. \u201cMy husband left me in order to live with a gentile woman. My two daughters also left me, in order to live with gentile husbands. And now, my last family member, my son, wishes to commit suicide.\u201d She dissolved in tears over her dissolving family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you keep Shabbat?\u201d I asked. She responded in the negative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you keep a kosher home?\u201d The same response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you fast on Yom Kippur?\u201d As expected, no.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you expect?\u201d I asked in surprise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want my husband to come back to me, and my daughters to marry fine, Jewish men.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I was in shock at her paradoxical outlook. She herself was light-years away from anything Jewish, not observing even the most basic elements of our religion. How can she demand of her family to observe Judaism?!<\/p>\n<p>When the education one gives his children is not up to the standards of our nation, isn\u2019t it expected that the outcome will be assimilation?<\/p>\n<p><em>If parents want their children to maintain their Jewish identity, they must educate them from their childhood, serving as a role model of Torah-true Judaism. In this manner, they will have nachat, as their children continue as a link in the chain of our legacy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maintaining the Legacy A woman bewailed her bitter plight. \u201cMy husband left me in order to live with a gentile woman. My two daughters also left me, in order to live with gentile husbands. And now, my last family member, my son, wishes to commit suicide.\u201d She dissolved in tears over her dissolving family. \u201cDo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":24317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1070],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}