Don’t Forget the Children
Toras Avigdor | May 18, 2025
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Don’t Forget the Children

Toras Avigdor | June 27, 2025

And children too. You have to be careful not to hurt children's feelings. Sometimes it's better to give a potch rather than insult a child, to call him a dummy or other things. And sometimes if a child is insulted in front of all the other children, he'll remember it forever. You have to be careful of that. Exactly what to do, aseh k’chochmosecha, but you should know ona’as devarim applies to ketanim too, yes.

Just like gezel, if you steal money that belongs to a katan – let’s say it was a matanah; if somebody gave a katan a matanah, so it's his property now. You can't steal it from him.

I know a zeida, when his grandchildren come in he gives them lollypops, little toys. When they go out sometimes one leaves over something in the house so the zeida doesn't give it to anybody else. He gave it to the grandchild, da’as acheres makneh, the child was koneh it. He can't give it to...

And children too. You have to be careful not to hurt children's feelings. Sometimes it's better to give a potch rather than insult a child, to call him a dummy or other things. And sometimes if a child is insulted in front of all the other children, he'll remember it forever. You have to be careful of that. Exactly what to do, aseh k’chochmosecha, but you should know ona’as devarim applies to ketanim too, yes.

Just like gezel, if you steal money that belongs to a katan – let’s say it was a matanah; if somebody gave a katan a matanah, so it's his property now. You can't steal it from him.

I know a zeida, when his grandchildren come in he gives them lollypops, little toys. When they go out sometimes one leaves over something in the house so the zeida doesn't give it to anybody else. He gave it to the grandchild, da’as acheres makneh, the child was koneh it. He can't give it to...

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