Question:
On Chol HaMoed, many people go to parks and supermarkets, amusement parks, zoos, trips, hikes, etc. Is there anything wrong with having a little of this? Should we send our children to go to these places so that they shouldn’t feel bored and thereby enjoy the Yom Tov? Or should we withhold children from all of this, because it can cause them to go to places that are inappropriate?
Answer:
One should find the most refined kind of place possible in this generation to go to, relatively speaking, in order to calm their [children’s] souls. At the same time, one also needs to gradually educate their children to live a life of an inner world: to get the child accustomed to searching for an inner kind of life. A child should be trained to always examine each thing he/she encounters, by breaking up a matter into details and seeing the different factors involved in everything.
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