There’s never been a young man. He grew up in a good home is full of positive influence. He has the best education in the community. His parents set him on the straight way to success, but his own ideas about what he wanted from life. And so the downward spiral began. He began to engage in “pleasure” of life … He demanded the flesh; He began to drink more wine than normal. Her parents tried to curb his usual practice of the newly formed and gives him advice on life, but to no avail. He refused to listen to them, and worse, he demands that they fund the usual selfish! No matter what his parents did, he refused to change her life back around. Left with no other choice, Torah were commanded by her parents to take him before beis din (Court Jew) to have him sentenced to death. A tragic end to what could be a promising way of life …
This is the story “wayward and rebellious son” in the Torah Ki Teitzei. ( Talmud Sanhedrin 71a) tells us that the story never really happened … that in the years of history, not a single “rebel child” never really found among the Jews. Supposedly, he was included in the law so that we can reap the rewards of studying something just for the sake of heaven. Well, I’m not usually one who does not agree with the wisdom of the Talmud. .. but they are wrong. The story of rebel has children that really happened. Don’t believe me? Just ask my parents.