Shemos 5785

These are the names of the children , Es YAakov, a man and his house came.

Rav HIrsch states; with this is explained the survival of Israel in the face of innumerable

calamity. When the nations see us lying in the dirt bereft of strength, the power that allows us to rise again is the strength of the bond between the parents and children. A strength of faith in our fathers and tapping into what helped them stand up despite the worlds insistence on destruction. The jewish home maintained an individual, yet within a group that can hold on to the past to build a future, Branches , individual, but growing off the main trunk, allows for continuity

Rav Kook writes that each generation is tasked with job of finding the balance

between the group and the individual. Depending on the generation, sometimes more individual freedom is needed for survival, and sometimes the group needs to have stronger control, due to dangerous winds of change, until it is clarified what is its true motivation and outcome. He states an individual can survive without a group, and can be uplifted by the group. However, a group that suppresses the

individual, will not survive. The tighter the group control, the more the individual destroyed, the more death it will bring.

A glaring example of this is communism. Karl Marx used the oldest technique to burrow his way into the hearts of the masses. Since the base drive of mankind is jealousy, desire and respect, when not worked on, when not trained to examine and identify your own motivation, jealousy unwrapped will seek to destroy anyone who has what you want. Instead of working on yourself to get it also, Society that wants to take, renames this equality, no one less than, and it was intoxicating, Everyone the same, noone having more than you, The first time in this world where this technique is recorded is when the snake comes to Chava, enticing her to sin. He pushes her against the tree, touching it, and nothing happens. Adam Harishon had told her dont eat from it, he added and dont touch it - to create an additional barrier, and this is where the snake always seeks to enter.

When we overdo, and overstringent, when we dont know the difference between must and extra, when we forget that wasnt the original truth, when added on rule is broken, the original truth is broken as well, we tend to throw the whole thing out. The snake says to Chava; the reason He doesnt want you to eat, is because you will be like G-d. You will now be equal. That is almost always the rallying cry, to get a person to buy in and look away from the hurting and killing. A short term necessary evil that will certainly change once it is all secure. Inevitably, it leads to our immorality, our imprisonment, our compliit compliance by associated guilt, and ultimately to destruction of our self and our will.

Another way KArl MArx attacked the indivdual to destroy a persons essence or self, he stated that marriage and family took away from the group. Destroying the

essence of self, strength support and the reason you matter the most. And the fallback, where you could discuss anthing safely to arrive at finer and more refined truths. The Kibbutznils originally tried living in mens barracks women barrack and child centers with the inherent known destruction these caused.

Currently, our society has deemed it common that both men and women work or are out, noone at home for children. So a child is placed in full time care sometimes as young as 6 weeks old. One child, amongst many, whats lost is knowing that your are the most precious thing in the world to me . Going to a center means theres nothing special about you, wait your turn like everyone else. , Certainly socialized to being in the group, they have lost what it means to be oneself. Fron here, dress, thought, speech and decision making, becomes decided by the accepted norms in the social group. If one doesnt fit precisely into it, or disagrees, the child is ostracized and developes differences which are quickly "treated", they must fit, as compared to their peers. . The child must follow the group think and is afraid to show or even think of whether they like it or not, or is it good or bad for me . They must go with the group. And here good and evil are equalized., and they are justified. With quotes of there is no evil, since this other thing came first , it is justified. But if there is no evil, there can be no good either. All of your decisions to act, or not, are based on this. Being uncomfortable with good or evil, we can rename it giver and taker. But every action you choose to take or not to act on, Will lead to the playout of the resultant outcome, and the next set of up or down that will come your way, Your actions hint at the thoughts, feel and soul within. Which you represent, which reflects the family you came from , the community you live in and the society that developed, or destroyed.