Eat a Carrot Every Day

Eat a Carrot Every Day

An experience that I have had with Tochachah, was when I was younger and I decided that I was going to try not do my homework for the first time. My mom saw that I was watching a lot of television after school one day and that I wasn’t spending any time in my room, so she suspected that something wasn’t right. She asked me if I had finished my homework to make sure that I was done for the day and I responded to her that I didn’t. She tried to rebuke to help me and make sure that this was not something that became a habit. She threatened to take some of my things away if I did not do my homework, so she successfully rebuked and committed Tochachah, which is a good thing in this case.

If I knew the laws of Tochachah, I do not believe that I would have been able to handle the situation any differently because of my age. At the age when this event occurred, I did not even know what Tochachah was, but I still followed some of the rules without even knowing it, and my mother did the same. Whenever she thought I was making a mistake or a bad decision, she would always rebuke, not because she was intentionally following the laws, but because she just wanted me to make the right decisions. My mother and father both used to follow the laws of Tochachah without any intent of following these laws when I was just a child, and they still even do the same today. I will also do the same if I think that my friends or family is making the wrong decision, not out of intent of following these laws, but just out of pure generosity and care for the people that I believe are making these poor choices.

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