The war against Chinuch has entered a new phase - disrupting the dedication of children into the service of G-d Al-mighty - and so must our proactive response enter a new phase

Why this matters to every human 👉 Chinuch puts a child on track to a joyous and productive life. Productive = bringing more good human beings and increasing the Knowledge of G-d Al-mighty in the world

Chinuch means the dedication of a person into the service of G-d Al-mighty. It is an obligation of every parent, Jewish and non-Jewish, to provide Chinuch for their children.¹

It is not equivalent to modern schooling. Modern schooling transfers selective, misleading and often false information. Chinuch ignites the child’s soul into the service of G-d Al-mighty.

The role model of Chinuch has been the Jewish People, completely dedicating themselves to raising every child fully aflame with their soul. This is the continuation of the First Commandment and Blessing of G-d Al-mighty - to Be Fruitful and Multiply. Torah observant Jewish parents are driven to Mechanech² their children so that their children will remain on track in the service of G-d Al-mighty and themselves be inspired to fulfill the Command and Blessing to Be Fruitful and Multiply. This is the purpose of Chinuch.

Any idea or information that would have even the most remote possibility of cooling off a child’s enthusiasm for Being Fruitful and Multiplying has no place in Chinuch. It is the antithesis of Chinuch. The Jew does not seek to consume ideas and information. Rather he selectively chooses what ideas and information will propel his enthusiasm for his Creator, for his Creator’s Vision, for building family and for helping other Jews and non-Jews to do the same.

There is no option for any other path. Any anti-procreation idea or suggestion is lethal to the expansion of the human population. Placing human intellect as the center of cult worship warps a man’s mind so he is no longer of service to men or his Creator. Therefore, he who is in awe of the Presence of G-d Al-mighty and His Vision for Creation and for men, is incapable of allowing the infiltration of any other idea into Chinuch.

The wise among the nations have always emulated Jewish Chinuch. The ‘content’ of Chinuch is fundamentally the same for a Jew and non-Jew, with variations only related to G-d Al-mighty’s calling for each in completing G-d Al-mighty’s Vision for men in this World and the World to Come. But, fundamentally, knowledge of the Unity and Oneness of G-d Al-mighty is the same for each person. As is the responsibility to act towards themselves and their fellow men in ways that emulate G-d Al-mighty.

This is the simple reality. Those who cleave to it remain intact through the rise and fall of civilizations.³

As for ‘practical’ skills in life, given the choice between filling a child’s time with learning about G-d Al-mighty and loving his fellow versus arithmetic, the former takes precedence, even to the exclusion of the later. No man has yet died because he could not do arithmetic while trying to purchase food. But hundreds of millions have died at the hands of men highly proficient in arithmetic⁴ but devoid of grounding in the Knowledge of G-d Al-mighty and the love of his fellow man. But a child immersed in the reality that his fellow man is also so special because he is created in the Divine Image of G-d Al-mighty, then that child, and later adult, cannot but be kind and helpful to him.

The most productive person is he who brings children into the world and increases the Knowledge of G-d Al-mighty in the world, thus making ever more people productive. The greatest human occupation is raising a family. This is what Chinuch fuels.

In every generation twisted men have risen to destroy Chinuch. The Torah, the Prophets and the chronicles of man since then are filled with their names. Knowing that a child who is beneficiary of proper Chinuch will be eternally loyal to G-d Almighty and cannot be shaken loose to join the chaotic and terrified masses, the twisted man is driven to eliminate Chinuch by any means. If he can outlaw it outright he will do so, as when the Greeks and Romans banned the learning of Torah, or shut it down in the name of ‘public health’ as happened in 2020. If he can’t get away with that, he will limit its hours, demand that the developing human mind be filled, at least part of the day with the matters of human intellect that he worships, and he will infiltrate his ideas into every school book, into every coloring book, into every magazine and every ‘educational’ tool.

The Communists did not need to kill all the Jews. They only had to force the Jews to accept an afternoon of ‘important’ secular skills. Within a short while these ‘skilled’ children became the greatest zealots for the Marxist State, demanding that their parents not attend synagogue or practice Judaism. And thus G-d Al-mighty was forgotten by hundreds of millions for over one hundred years.

The only ‘skill’ a person needs in life is the training in how to navigate the distracting thoughts and strange desires that traverse our thinking and emotions.

In the 1800s, the Enlightenment mounted repeated assaults on Chinuch trying to pervert the Russian Monarchy into becoming the hammer against Chinuch. The Tzemach Tzedek, the third Lubavitcher Rebbe, exposed the evil plots and made it clear to the Jews and the non-Jews that the Jewish People would not concede even one ‘minor’ detail of Chinuch because such a concession would be lethal both physically and spiritually. Therefore, he declared that he and the Jewish People were prepared to die rather than agree to even one ‘minor’ concession.

But the Enlightenment did not cease its attacks and they came in waves decade after decade.

Meanwhile the Enlightenment was destroying the non-Jewish world by removing the knowledge of G-d Al-mighty from the schools and introducing every form of perversion, theft and murder. Their goal was, and is, not only to destroy the souls of the non-Jews but to so degrade the non-Jews’ connection to G-d Al-mighty, that the Jew who remains loyal to the Torah will become offensive to the average non-Jew. The non-Jew, having abandoned the practice of the principles of the Torah that are ingrained in every man, will be hostile to the Jew who still clings to the principles of the Torah. That is the goal of the Enlightenment.

The Englightenment erodes the society around the Jew as part of the attack on the Jew, the carrier of G-d’s Divine Wisdom from generation to generation.

Under this assault, the Jewish People divide into various camps. Those who say it’s all too much to handle, being so different, and they rush to assimilate, eliminate their uniqueness and the discomfort of the spotlight. Then, there are those who say that it makes sense to explore the ‘wisdom’ of the Enlightenment and adopt that which is not outwardly repulsive, all the while maintaining, for as long as they can muster, an increasingly merely external continuation of Torah observance. And, then there are those who hold the line, refuse to compromise and keep Chinuch pure.

However, those in the last group are also under threat, from four key angles:

1. Bribery and assault. Offering money to schools to tie them into the financial addiction to keep the schools increasingly in line and bring Chinuch under government regulation and control.⁵ In line with the carrot of the money, comes the stick of the increased regulations and the assaults on Chinuch with negative portrayals and threats, as flood the internet and include Sunday’s hit piece in the New York Times. That attack was printed in Yiddish so the Jews who only speak Yiddish should know loud and clear that they are under attack.

2. Infiltration of foreign ideas. The classroom and textbooks are but two ways to spread Enlightenment ideology. The Enlightenment infiltrates ideas in through ‘rabbinic training courses’ that are focused on Enlightenment battering rams such as as psychology. Other means include extracurricular activities, news publications, family magazines, children publications, children’s reading material, and ‘kosher’ entertainment and videos. One of my kids favorites is a Yiddish CD, Ma’ma Loshon, with beautiful songs centered around daily life and prayer. Sandwiched in the middle is a public health propaganda song about the importance of being healthy, exercise and listening to public health doctors. The programatic phraseology is from the public health movement infiltrated into what the Yiddish speaking children hear and think is safe.

3. Isolation and collapse of civilization around them. Those who remain true to Chinuch often end of manning the barricades to protect against outside influences. Even in their pristine bubble, they are under threat because civilization is collapsing around them.⁶ They are riled up into taking isolationist positions instead of going on the offensive and restoring civilization by bringing all the non-Jewish people to embrace Chinuch.

   I drew the below cartoon in May 2022 to convey my take on the over 300,000 letters that were sent to the Board of Regents to oppose government control and regulation over Chinuch. Those writing the letters are in the walled in compound fighting to Save Chinuch and fighting off the assault of the Bord of Regents with their petition signatures while the Anti-Divine Image campaign is collapsing civilization all around them. The ground they are standing on is already beginning to topple, may G-d Al-mighty save us.

   

   
   

4. Destroying the fabric of the Jewish unity and principle of ‘no compromise.’ The Jewish People have been typically united in deflecting negative influences. Often demeaned as “insular” it successfully warded off the barrage of immorality, idolatry and death worship. At least for those communities that stayed true to Torah teachings, which made them oblivious to the blandishments of the authorities and Enlightenment culture, philosophy, science and medicine. But the battering ram of public health has been strategically implemented to destroy that unity. Public health campaigns, such as Operation Measles, have been used to give the Enlightenment public health loyalists within the Torah observant community the excuse to eject the common sense Torah observers from communal life and throw Jewish children out of Chinuch. Then in 2020 the public health loyalists used the excuse of public health Operation C.OVID to accomplish what the Tzar could not do - shut down Torah learning in Chadorim and Yeshivas.⁷ They also drove at the heart of thousands of years of mutual Jewish loyalty by demanding snitching on non-compliant Jews and informing on them to the public health authorities. Now they are gearing up for the same with Operation Polio.

   Each new assault on Chinuch is preceded by a Public Health Operation aimed at the observant Jewish population. The Public Health Operation viciously attacks the fabric of communal unity, bars children from schools and adults from synagogues or shuts down the schools entirely thereby sending a message internally and externally that Chinuch and public prayer is not so essential and, instead, must make way of the public good, and promotes compliance as the number one priority. On the heels of this destruction comes the next wave of the assault on Chinuch, with its masterminds believing the Jews will no longer stand up for each other, seeing the Jews are weakened in their commitment to Chinuch and that the Jews have just pledged allegiance to the “public good” as defined by the Enlightenment and compliance, über alles.⁸

A key instrument in accomplishing this is the double agent who appears to be a part of the pure Chinuch camp, but advances the Enlightenment agenda. That’s why the same people who ejected Jewish students from their schools in Operation Measles and closed their schools to comply with the public health mandates and demanded that the parents comply without questions in Operation C.OVID, then turned around and told the parents that they must Save Chinuch! by sending in petitions to the Board of Regents.⁹ That’s because sending in petitions is the very action encouraged by the masterminds against Chinuch.¹⁰

Petitions¹¹ are urgently sent to the members of the Board of Regents who were only appointed because of their allegiance to the Enlightenment world view.¹² But sending petitions fail to shift public sentiment, because the alarmed parents were misdirected into actions that would intentionally not shift public sentiment. Public sentiment is left to be shaped by the New York Times which does reach the public at large. Failure of the petition campaign then leads to despair and the growing sense that the world is hostile to the Jew and Chinuch.¹³ The political operatives in the Jewish communities, continue to pretend that they have some favors they can pull in return for all the votes that they delivered. But it is a lie because the politicians of this generation are ideologues committed to accelerating the end stage of the Enlightenment agenda.

There is a different way, a way of victory that will free not only the Jewish children from the threats to Chinuch but turn the tides and free the non-Jewish children from the horrors of the “education” they are forced to attend.

Plan of action

The following plan of action is designed for the man and woman of action.