Sparks of Inspiration

"For the great importance of tinokos shel beis rabon, every single person who is able to do and help with this must WORK with his money body and soul to build the proper education”.

Based on a sicha of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Shushan Purim 5714

The Baal Shem Tov taught that every Jewish child should be perceived as a treasure-house whose contests need only to be revealed.

(Sicha of Shabbos Parshas Vayeshev)

The education of children affects all the spiritual worlds, from the loftiest heights to the most profound depths. As the Gemorah states that the world continues to exist only through the learning of children.

(Sicah of Yud Shvat 5715; See Chidushei
Agados Maharsha to Shabbos 886)

In a mature tree, a gash here or a torn branch there is of little or no consequence. But the smallest scratch in the seed, the slightest nick in the sapling, results in an irrevocable deformity -- in a flaw which the decades to come will deepen rather than erase.

The ultimate cause for salvation was the fact that Mordechai gathered 22,000 Jewish children and taught them Torah. The Lesson: The most important thing is to teach Jewish children Torah, regardless of one’s lofty position or community involvement.

14 Adar, 5732-1972

Just as it is incumbent upon every Jew, from the greatest scholar to the most simple of men, to put on tefillin every day, in the same way there is an unequivocal duty which rests upon every individual to set aside half an hour each day to think about the education of his children.

Rabbi Sholom DovBer of Lubavitch

Civilized society depends on proper education built on a healthy foundation.

10 Shevat, 5743 • January 24, 1983