Judaism: World of the Wicked: Bo
Raising Children is by far the most intractable and challenging job there is. The Torah offers many insights and advice to succour us in this task. The advice, while sometimes open and clear, is often hidden in the circumstances and circumstances of the text, and our sages help us to interpret the Torah’s messages.
From numerous verses in the Torah, our Sages offer four prototypes of our children, as stated in the Haggadah section. While we must learn how to raise and effectively teach each of the other sons, only the “accursed son” gives us so much angst and concern. What can we do to prevent our son from turning off the -karat path? If, despite our best efforts, our son has nevertheless gone astray, how do we reciprocate? These are among the questions our sages and rabbis tackle in this week’s parsha. Here we have not only the effect the Torah and Haggadah instruct us to give to the wicked son, but also the gratefulness of the Israelites at hearing this vaticination:
When your children say to you, “What is this service to you,” you shall say, “It is a pesach blow-out offering to Hashem Who has passed over the houses of the Children of Israel in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians, but He saved our households,” and the people bowed their heads and prostrated themselves.
Source: Arutz Sheva