Bar Mitzvah Sermon: On Jewish Education and Secularization

Shaul Shoḥet

1915/16

[ . . . ] Some [Jewish] people have children who may be likened to seeds, others who can be likened to vegetables, and yet others, to thorns. When parents raise their children in the ways of Torah, hiring good teachers for them to instruct their children both in the ways of Torah and in the ways of [secular] education, then the children will be…