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Lecturer and teacher in numerous institutions
When we teach Torah and Yahadus, we freely use terms we assume students understand, words like “immortality” or “soul.” But what do words like immortality and soul really mean? When people think of a soul, they think of something amorphous that has no connection to daily life.
There are concrete ways to define these words we use so loosely, to understand what we experience in our soul during our daily lives and what a soul is when it’s outside the body.
We teach our children: You’re here to follow the Torah, do mitzvos, be observant. When a young person is in school, it can be enough to explain that the reason is to do the Will of Hashem. But once a student leaves the framework of school, and many paths are before him, the questions why? and for what purpose? become more pressing, and staying a dedicated yerei Shamayim may become more challenging.
If we can teach an understanding of Hashem’s goal for us, the purpose of Hashem’s creation, we can give our students the will to live up to His mission in creating the world.
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