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