[Avodah] best way to teach emuna

[Simi Peters via Avodah]

Best way to teach emuna?  Individually, according to the needs of the
student.  It's not a one-size-fits-all proposition.

 

Absolutely best way to teach emuna?  By example.  If you've thought a lot
about issues of emuna (which is usually a good idea), you can often use your
conclusions to educate your children when they ask questions.  (Remember,
the mitva of hinukh is primarily incumbent upon the parent.)  If your
answers do not satisfy them, it is a good idea to have others to whom you
can direct them for answers.  And that requires openness to other derakhim
as well.  What worked for you, might not work for your children, so letting
them move to the right or the left or somewhere else in the middle (while
continuing to encourage observance of halakha) is a smart hinukh strategy.  

 

Bear in mind, though, that your child is ultimately a bar or bat behira and
at some point really becomes responsible for him/herself.

 

Kol tuv,

Simi Peters



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