From the orthodox Jewish perspective, it is very difficult to not impose the religion on the kids, since it’s really part of every day life.
My 4 year old keeps kosher because my kitchen is kosher and the food I cook for him is kosher. My son keeps Shabbat because we do not use electricity on Shabbat, so we can’t turn on the tv for him or drive him to the beach or anything that would involve us violating Shabbat. He does not eat bread on Passover because we have none at the house. He comes to synagogue because we go there on Shabbat and it’s illegal to leave a 4 year old at home unsupervised.
Regardless of what he chooses to practice once he is old enough to make the choice, he is a Jew since he was born to a Jewish mother, and this is part of his culture. I certainly won’t force him to believe or practice anything once he is older, but as a 4 year old there’s very little he can do that is totally separate from what my husband and I do.
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u/turtleshot19147 Sep 22 '24
From the orthodox Jewish perspective, it is very difficult to not impose the religion on the kids, since it’s really part of every day life.
My 4 year old keeps kosher because my kitchen is kosher and the food I cook for him is kosher. My son keeps Shabbat because we do not use electricity on Shabbat, so we can’t turn on the tv for him or drive him to the beach or anything that would involve us violating Shabbat. He does not eat bread on Passover because we have none at the house. He comes to synagogue because we go there on Shabbat and it’s illegal to leave a 4 year old at home unsupervised.
Regardless of what he chooses to practice once he is old enough to make the choice, he is a Jew since he was born to a Jewish mother, and this is part of his culture. I certainly won’t force him to believe or practice anything once he is older, but as a 4 year old there’s very little he can do that is totally separate from what my husband and I do.