The great Rabbi Hiyya’s sons became farmers. In time they forgot everything that their
father had taught them. One day, one of
the brothers asked, “Do you think that our father knows [that we have abandoned
what he taught us about Torah]?”
The answer came, “Just as a man’s flesh will cause him agony, will his soul
not mourn too?”
-berachot 18 b
That which generations survived to teach us remains as a value
to be cherished. They still watch and
care.
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