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<font size=3>RSRH's masterful essay on Ben Sorar Umoreh may be read at
<a href="http://www.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/rsrh/ben_sorar_moreh.pdf" eudora="autourl">
http://www.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/rsrh/ben_sorar_moreh.pdf</a>
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At one point in this essay he writes, "All this applies particularly
to a Jewish boy growing into Jewish manhood under the direction of
parents who have truly done their duty. Such a boy has been guided from
his earliest childhood by the shining example of his parents. They have
demonstrated to him by their own conduct how man should happily
subordinate all his aspirations to the higher authority of God, and that,
in fact, this is the only way in which man can achieve true happiness in
his life and work. They have shown him by their own behavior how the
genuine Jew banishes all that is sordid and ignoble from his life, how he
places the imprint of Divine consecration even upon the most physical
aspects of daily living, and how every phase of life, public and private,
should be ruled by one and the same spirit and ideal-the spirit and the
ideal expressed by the term mitzvah, duty as commanded by
God."<br><br>
Given that the requirement to install WebChaver on the computers of all
parents at YTY was motivated by educational considerations, perhaps a
detailed study of this essay is in order, especially now, when it is in
this week's parsha. YL <br><br>
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