Kosher is essential!!

Sadly, the world is not a perfect place.

The jewish world is always at threat of hate and incoming negligence from many non-jews and sadly even many jews.

The worry of any kosher home is a non-kosher jewish friendship as well as a society where the children will be exposed to the love of treif which should be vomited out.

Still, it is not always possible if you are not at a jewish school to have a perfect relationship with other students if they are coercing your child to try non-kosher meats and other non-kosher non-edible foods.

I can only tell you that I did not keep kosher until I was maybe 30 and that was a hard decision.  I grew up to "like" the non-kosher meats and foods and always thought it was the greatest of the greats.  It took me a major life decision to learn that it was ignorant and very untidy as a jew to even consider eating things like crab lobster and pork.

Still, I will wonder all my life how the events and feelings in my life could have played out had I been kosher in all of my schooling and then in my employment prior to my days keeping kosher.

It is very hard and you can not in any sense really learn Torah at all until you keep kosher.  You will have private jewish feelings perhaps and you will likely have many non-kosher jewish friends who are exemplary citizens.  But until you keep kosher yourself, you are always at a loss.

So therefore, this is probably a good starting place in cinuch. Keep kosher.

Your child will have a much better chance to have a Torah life and find himself in good inner-mood.

The soul is not better in any sense when a treif item is introduced. The child perhaps will not be as easy to discover in his own feeling or her own will.

So though I will never likely study my own children in this state (baruch Hashem, I think G-d will keep this one safe for me to raise children in that day),  I will assume that I will indeed notice limited lacking experiences in the children of other jewish friends who are not raised kosher as well as I do in fact know many issues that many of my non-kosher friends have in learning Torah and having even the most simple jewish feelings.

Jewish feelings are important. A jewish soul can not exist with treif.

And thus, this is very much one of the most important things.   Of course any Orthodox jew would not even think this needs much discussion as they have no intention to do otherwise, but there are too many jews today that do not regard Torah as valued and thus they have no idea that the treif that the ingest is poison to their neshama and that the curse of eating this horror and abomination is a terror that can only be improved in a better sense of yiddishkeit and human value.

I can only state that I have tried kiruv on many friends in a very sensible manner and kosher is the most difficult thing to think that any of them will learn and assume righteous.

Its very hard and every excuse in the book and yet to be more have been thrown at me. I will discuss the importance and hope for the best.  But for me, I am happy now and know that G-d is real and will be my King.

That is good.  Who needs any other way of life.

G-d bless America.

Keep it kosher.

Four for the Fours

Tonight I had to simplify an inner-discussion of good and bad people with my own inner mood. It was funny. I found myself reducing my feelings to a young mind just to understand some of the wickedness and hate in the world that I co-exist as a jew.

So this got me thinking that maybe I have some blogging to do.

The four for the fours is a simple lecture.

There are four types of people to teach your four year old to think about.

The good people.
The bad people.
The funny people and The nice people.

Simple as it is.

This is a discussion to have at age 4.  Maybe 3 too. But before they are 5.

Thinking that the child will have a new simplistic experience in his or her day is very special.  Of course this is likely done, but I will tell you that it was not done enough for me to really get to the point that I could understand the real implications of good and bad.

Still, a child must learn Torah in his years and the very addition of human experience is very good.

As a child, I had a trainset.  I did not realize until today how important it was in my childhood and what it did for me as a jew.

I had a Lionel trainset and I played with it endlesslessly when I was 5-7 years old probably.   It developed an inner experience whereby I found G-d present in my life.  I found that this evaporated quickly as I got older and sought things like video games which were special, but the very profound reality of an order of human experience was missing.

Still, a trainset is a blessing. Get one for your kids.  Jewish kids are better off in my humble opinion with Lionel trains because their size is more spectacular and the G-d can be seen as being the very special day with large toys.   A smaller trainset is very special too. Maybe as they get older they can appreciate one more.   But I prefer lionel trains.

I wonder if this blog will be the very simple that I can find to reflect on about being a child as well.  This might be fun.  I can think that the dignity of being older and having the precious insight of a child would be good.  I will try to remember my own childhood and what was good and what needed to be limited. Therefore, I will be able to write more and share perhaps with someone else a good insight on how to grow into a good Torah Jew as that is my own goal at my older years.

Torah is very self-reflective. The advent of the video gaming in my world added much anticipated excitement. Had I been reading books however, I would have grown in my inner-world more and less at just a hands-eye coordiation attack on the enemy.

Still, games are fun. The board games especially holy.

So thats it for now. Lets see what this blog can do in the future.

Baruch Hashem.

The childhood is the very important stepping time for the beginning of Torah education.

Shalom.

G-d bless America

This will be a cinuch blog

I am today 43 years old and yet I have no children, but I am learning Torah and would of course like to have a child if I am so blessed to marry.

Of course, this may or may never happen, but in my course of human affairs, I find my philosophy thinks of a childhood that one I myself had and what I would like to do if I had a child.  Perhaps as this blog progressed, I will indeed have children and that will help me add insight and wisdom to the blog.

The Torah adds much meaning to a human experience and childhood can be very special.  

A jewish child should be raised to love Torah, respect his elders and family and enjoy learning and study.  In this complex world, we must learn to do cinuch which is the raising of Children with Torah and kindness/chesed.

So I will do my best as my flattered inner mood improves these days to make this blog worthwhile.

If I have a child, I bet I will fill the pages.  Until then, I will blog at will.

Thanks and happy child rearing for the parents to be.

Thanks.