How to be an inspiring parent rule 6.

Now let me ask you a simple question. What's the Hebrew for education?

Right? Wrong. the Hebrew for education? Right? Wrong.

The Hebrew for education is Talmud Torah.

Talmud Torah is the Judaism you learn from teachers.

It's the Judaism you learn from listening.

It's the Judaism you learn from reading.

It's the Judaism you learn from classes, it's the Judaism you learn from

classes and from books. That's Talmud Torah.

Chinoch means something else.

Rishi defines Chinoch as tchillat shimush of the dava.

It's when you first put something to use. That's why Chinoch is Hanukhat Abay it when you first use the house.

You consecrate it.

That's Chinuch.

Chinuch means learning by doing.

And that is a different concept altogether and terribly, terribly important.

When you teach your child who's not

yet bar or but mitzvah a year or two in advance to fast on Yem Kippur, that is Chinuch. When you get

your son to wear Tfilin before he's by mitzvah, that's Chinuch. Chinuch is learning by doing.

So always, if you want your kids to really internalize Judaism,

they have not only to learn, they have to do, you have to empower them to do.

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