a poem i wrote directed to children who claim.. "learning is boring".... (all kids think their teachers-parents-adults are all boring).
Bored-What does the word mean? I'm bored"- it's something i hear kids say when they want ice cream.
Bored:-is it an actual event?or just a state of mind when one wishes to be entertained?
Bored-who created the word? surely g-d did not.... for only man would create a word to describe his choice of doing nothing and say all is done.How can one be bored?
How can one find that there is nothing else to be done?
Have they read all the books or written up all the songs? Played every game, touched every heart. Fixed all that is broken, spoken every word?
Ask yourself: have you done all that which was meant for you to do?Until you can say yes! ...to that eternal question of "have i done all"..do not say the word "bored" .... forever more.
Monday, May 11, 2009
shavout message 5769
B"H
Dear CIKB and Friends Shlita
The Holiday of Shavout that follows the Holiday of Passover is connected to each other in numerous ways. Shavout is calculated by counting the 49 days of Omer between them; the 50th day becoming Shavout. The very reason for Exodus from Egypt was to journey to Sinai and receive G-d's law and become free to serve G-d and practice His Torah. Another idea of the connection between them is the shared focus and importance of children. In the last Passover message it was pointed out how the Passover Seder is set up to encourage children, at what ever level they are to ask questions; hence the Ma Nishtana.
Regarding Shavout children too play an integral part of the Holiday.Our Rabbis tells us that when G-d gave us the Torah, He asked for guarantors. The Jewish People offered many, including the Elders, the Sages, etc all where not acceptable to G-d. Only the yiddishe kinderlach - Jewish children did He accept as garuntors for His Torah. Only when the earlier generations focus on teaching the next generation; the children, can we be certain that the Torah as our inheritance will endure.
When I learned in yeshiva, a while back, in Brooklyn we had European Rebbe's from the "Alta - Hiem" teachers that though they did not know the latest technique in teaching where in and of themselves an example of Yiddish living and life, to emulate. We where American kids - Yaankees...- with "bubble gum" - "baseball cards" and ball playing.. our Rebbe's never heard of this stuff. Today with much more technology and a highly stimulative world more effort is needed to get children's attention to learn. Todays Rebbe's, though they speak the same language come from the same country, received chinuch training and seminars yet the atmosphere we live in today is not the same, it is more materialistic and free.
May G-d bless the Rebbe's with success to instill the love and practice of Torah in them and to the parents who are their "Elders" who must make every effort to guarantee the children continue the chain of Torah begun at Sinai. And that we merit much yiddish nachas from all the yiddish kinderlich within joy and abundance.
with blessing for a healthy and productive summer spiritual and physical to all.
and to receive the Torah with joy and inwardness.amen
Rabbi Y. Winner
p.s.I would like to include a poem i wrote directed to children who claim.. "learning is boring".... (all kids think their teachers-parents-adults are all boring).
Bored
What does the word mean? I'm bored"- it's something i hear kids say when they want ice cream.
Bored:-is it an actual event?or just a state of mind when one wishes to be entertained?
Bored-who created the word? surely g-d did not.... for only man would create a word to describe his choice of doing nothing and say all is done.
How can one be bored? How can one find that there is nothing else to be done?
Have they read all the books or written up all the songs? Played every game, touched every heart. Fixed all that is broken, spoken every word?
Ask yourself: have you done all that which was meant for you to do?
Until you can say yes! ...to that eternal question of "have i done all"..
do not say the word "bored" .... forever more.
Dear CIKB and Friends Shlita
The Holiday of Shavout that follows the Holiday of Passover is connected to each other in numerous ways. Shavout is calculated by counting the 49 days of Omer between them; the 50th day becoming Shavout. The very reason for Exodus from Egypt was to journey to Sinai and receive G-d's law and become free to serve G-d and practice His Torah. Another idea of the connection between them is the shared focus and importance of children. In the last Passover message it was pointed out how the Passover Seder is set up to encourage children, at what ever level they are to ask questions; hence the Ma Nishtana.
Regarding Shavout children too play an integral part of the Holiday.Our Rabbis tells us that when G-d gave us the Torah, He asked for guarantors. The Jewish People offered many, including the Elders, the Sages, etc all where not acceptable to G-d. Only the yiddishe kinderlach - Jewish children did He accept as garuntors for His Torah. Only when the earlier generations focus on teaching the next generation; the children, can we be certain that the Torah as our inheritance will endure.
When I learned in yeshiva, a while back, in Brooklyn we had European Rebbe's from the "Alta - Hiem" teachers that though they did not know the latest technique in teaching where in and of themselves an example of Yiddish living and life, to emulate. We where American kids - Yaankees...- with "bubble gum" - "baseball cards" and ball playing.. our Rebbe's never heard of this stuff. Today with much more technology and a highly stimulative world more effort is needed to get children's attention to learn. Todays Rebbe's, though they speak the same language come from the same country, received chinuch training and seminars yet the atmosphere we live in today is not the same, it is more materialistic and free.
May G-d bless the Rebbe's with success to instill the love and practice of Torah in them and to the parents who are their "Elders" who must make every effort to guarantee the children continue the chain of Torah begun at Sinai. And that we merit much yiddish nachas from all the yiddish kinderlich within joy and abundance.
with blessing for a healthy and productive summer spiritual and physical to all.
and to receive the Torah with joy and inwardness.amen
Rabbi Y. Winner
p.s.I would like to include a poem i wrote directed to children who claim.. "learning is boring".... (all kids think their teachers-parents-adults are all boring).
Bored
What does the word mean? I'm bored"- it's something i hear kids say when they want ice cream.
Bored:-is it an actual event?or just a state of mind when one wishes to be entertained?
Bored-who created the word? surely g-d did not.... for only man would create a word to describe his choice of doing nothing and say all is done.
How can one be bored? How can one find that there is nothing else to be done?
Have they read all the books or written up all the songs? Played every game, touched every heart. Fixed all that is broken, spoken every word?
Ask yourself: have you done all that which was meant for you to do?
Until you can say yes! ...to that eternal question of "have i done all"..
do not say the word "bored" .... forever more.
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