Pesach Sheini gives us the inner strength to turn our lives around
My older sister taught me not to use the words “off the derech” when describing kids who aren’t Torah observant at the moment. She prefers “teens on a detour in life,” or perhaps more delicately, “teens taking the scenic route.”
When I was a teen many moons ago, it was common to go through what we called “idiot years,” normally around the years of 16 and 17. Today, I warn parents that “idiot years” can begin after bar or bas mitzvah. (But they needn’t worry. It almost always gets better somewhere in their late twenties!)
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בסייד
From the first day I was married until now, a three-volume set of “The Book Of Our Heritage” published in 5733 / 1973 has been sitting on our bookshelf. The author is Eliyahu Kitov and credit goes to Nathan Bulman and Ruth Royde for translating this work from the Hebrew “Sefer Hatoda’ah.