The Torah provides guidelines to govern the parent-child relationship. Children have duties toward their parents – to honor and revere them. Parents have duties toward their children – to educate them. Honoring parents allows children to learn and benefit from the wisdom and life experience of past generations. Educating children allows parents to bequeath to them (and through them to future generations) what they have learned, together with their personal perspective. By following these two imperatives, parents and children connect with all generations and become an important link in the chain. They are part of the process of improving the world and bringing it closer to redemption.
