Parents Love: Marc Gafni

Of course God did have partners involved in making His myriad master-pieces — God’s partners are Parents. “Three partners are their in creation”; read the wisdom texts, “mother father and God”. Our first lovers in this world are our parents. Just because parents aren’t privy to the same perception of us as our lovers, they are nevertheless the center stage of our love lives for many crucial years. A parent’s obligation to a child is, above all, love.

What to do which a child who has fallen under negative influence the parents asked Master Israel of Good Name. “Love him more” the master responded. Love is not an abstract emotion with which parents are automatically endowed upon the child’s birth. Love is about the work of revealing the infinite specialness and beauty of the child. The audience for this revelation is not, as is commonly assumed, the world. The father who carries around baby pictures to show to anyone who will look is sweet, but has offered no evidence of his being engaged in real parenting. Real parenting is realizing that the one who needs to see the picture most – is the child herself.

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