Fathers Teach and Reproof, Children Listen and Obey - Mothers, teach your Children to Kiss the Torah.

Prov 1:8 My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother;

Hear is the word "shama" that means; to hear intelligently, to listen and understand, to listen with attention, obedience - to hear and do, to consider, to give ear, to regard, to understand.


To hear is not just to hear the sounds, it not just to hear what the person says either, it is to make sure that you understand clearly what the person says and then DO what the person asked. To hear (shama) is very closely linked to obedience and you have not heard if you have not obeyed. To hear is to hear an instruction, wisdom or knowledge to apply in your life. If the listener does not have a humble attitude and someone who is teachable, they will never HEAR (shema) because they will never obey. It is as if the person with the wrong attitude has lost their hearing and they have to listen through other means like through consequences.

The same goes for a blind person; they will never learn where the ditch is if they have not fell in it more than once. This is why YHVH compares a stubborn and arrogant person as being deaf and blind. Lev 19:14 teaches us not to curse or despise the deaf and the blind and not to put a stumbling block in their way. On a spiritual level it means that you must not despise those who do not see and hear the truth as you do and you must have patience and grace for those who are still blind and deaf spiritually. Love your neighbor and try to help them to see the light and pray for them so that YHVH can open their ears.

Y'shua performed miracles of opening blind eyes and healing deaf ears is the proof that only He can heal those who are still spiritually deaf and blind, you cannot heal them but you can be an instrument working with YHVH to reach them so that He can do the miracle in their lives. The best thing you can do for someone who is "blind and deaf" is to pray for them and not attack them accusing them of being pagan, putting a stumbling block in their way. Be as cunning as serpents but as gentle as doves when you deal with someone outside of the faith so that you may help to bring them into the Kingdom. Children should HEAR (shema) the instruction of their father.

Instruction is the word "musar" that means; chastisement, reproof, warning, restraint, correction, discipline, doctrine and instruction.

When your dad gives you a hiding or tell you off, that is the time you must listen very attentively because he is helping you to understand what you have done wrong so that you will not do it again. A wise child bumps his head once but a foolish child keep on hitting his head against everything.

Fathers on the other hand has the responsibility to teach and reproof their children so that they may know the Way of YHVH and learn wisdom from a young age. Passive fathers who do not reproof their children will bring up foolish children that will not be humble and obedient to any authority. Children should not forsake the law (torah/instructions) of their mother.

Forsake is the word "natash" that means; to pound, to smite (as in beating out), disperse, to thrust off, to reject, to leave, to loose, suffer.

This word is first used in Scripture in Gen 31:28 where Laban accused Jacob of not allowing him to kiss his sons and daughters (grand children). He also accuses Jacob of stealing his house gods and Jacob replied with a curse saying that the one having it will surely die. Laban wanted to kiss his children; to kiss means to fasten up or to attach and is the opposite of the meaning "forsake" that means "to thrust or push away". To kiss also means "to equip with weapons" as with armed men and if you "kiss" your mother's Torah or attach yourself with it, has the same function as to protect you with a weapon from your enemies. This thought is confirmed in Scripture where YHVH's Word is compared with a two-edged sword that will help to fight off Satan and his tactics. Eph 6:17.

Eph 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of YHVH,

Do not thrust away the weapons YHVH gives us but rather "kiss" His Word and cling on to it because it will help you to protect yourself and overcome the enemy.