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Unfortunately there have been many reports of abuse of children appearing in the newspapers and in online news and blogs. It is a appaling that this problem exists, but at the same time it is encouraging that finally it is out in the open. It is being discussed, approaches being suggested, legal and religious, and much discourse pro and con. But the problem still exists because parents and the Jewish Community cannot agree on how to deal with it, what approach to take. This battle must be fought. The children must be the winners in this war, not just wounded survivors from the battlefield.
It pains me deeply that some of our beautiful Jewish children, who were given up to HaShem as a guarantor that HaShem's children, we the Jewish Nation, would study and live by the laws given to us as a People. Why would anyone jeopardize their future inheritance over base pleasures. Mishpacha magazine [issue 365, pages 16-17] featured a two page commentary entitled "Molech Reinvented," [by Rabbi Henoch Plotnik, mara d'asra of Congregation Bais Tefila in Yehivas Me'or HaTorah in Chicago] in which he brings to light the mis-matching of young boys to the wrong yeshivas, with the best parental intentions, only to find out too late that in their decision-making they were offering up their children to "their" misplaced aspirations, instead of matching the education to what their child "needs for his neshoma."
After all, isn't this the foundation on which Torah education was based? Isn't this the purpose of organized learning instituted by first century sage Yehoshua ben Gamla (Bava Bathra 21a).
In more ways than none this evil Molech has many tentacles grabbing at innocent Jewish children. This Evil is trying to destroy the Jewish Nation. As my contribution to bring awareness and solutions, below are a series of lectures given by Rabbi Chaim Itche Drizin, MA, LMFT a licensed marriage and family therapist [Lcidchai@gmail.com]. He combines Narrative Therapy with ancient Torah wisdom and Kabbalistic & Chassidic thought, in this series which is featured on the Yeshiva.net
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