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More than three thousand years ago, Moses made a request that has echoed down the ages. Speaking to the Israelites who were about to enter the promised land, he said, \u201cAnd you shall teach these things to your children, speaking of them when you are at home or on the way, when you lie down and when you rise up\u201d (Deuteronomy 6:7). Moses was the leader of a small and injured people. They had been slaves; now they were free. They had set out on a long and tortuous journey through the desert and they had not yet reached their destination.<\/span><\/p>\n

They were not a people to inspire confidence. They were quarrelsome, ungrateful, indecisive and at times disloyal. Yet Moses sensed that something great had happened to them, something whose significance went far beyond that time, that place and this people. He believed \u2013 no, he <\/span>knew <\/span><\/i>– that this people would be the carriers of an eternal message, one that would have an effect not only on itself but on the civilization of the world. But only if successive generations of Jews took it upon themselves to hand down their beliefs to their children and their children\u2019s children.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just before Moses said these words he made an even more poignant request: \u201cYou shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.\u201d (Deuteronomy 6:5) The sixteenth-century commentator Rabbi Moses Alshekh was surely right when he said that these two verses are connected. We can only pass on to our children what we ourselves love. We cannot order our children to be Jews. We cannot deprive them of their choice, nor can we turn them into our clones. All we can do is to show them what we believe, and let them see the beauty of how we live. As the English poet Wordsworth said: \u201cWhat we love, others will love, and we will show them how.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

I cannot tell my children and grandchildren what they should be. Only they can make that choice, and I wish them blessing in whatever they decide. But I can tell them where we came from, and where our ancestors were travelling to, and why it was important to them that their children should carry on the journey. <\/span><\/p>\n

This is our story, unfinished yet. And there is a chapter only they can write.<\/span><\/p>\n


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