Next Generation

Today during class we talked about having to make choices between doing something secular and something religious. As I listened to my class mates, I noticed  most of them chose the secular thing over the religious. My whole life I really never thought of even having a choice to do secular things over religious. Every week on Friday I would get home from school early and I would make Challah with my אבא and we would clean the house for שבת. My mother would get home and as the sun went down she would light the candles and my אבא would do the special שבת קדוש and I would get to do the מוצי. Every Saturday morning I would go to Synagogue and after I could go to friend's houses. I have also never missed High Holiday services.

It was a surprise to me that my classmates could even have the choice to do secular thing, let alone actually do them. For example one person skipped יום כפור services to go to a concert. I think I would be too scared to skip services. These decisions that my generation makes are the future of the Jewish people. I hope that when we are adults, we can do the same as our parents and have our children go to services and make a priority of our religion. In order to continue the Jewish people we (as a generation) need to take initiative and start doing the religious things so we can teach the generations after us.