Rabbi JJ - Lessons from a Cheerio #shorts #comedy #parody #rabbi #satire

There's a young child who is sitting down to breakfast. He was eating Cheerios or something. At a certain moment, a single Cheerio falls off the spoon, starts landing on the table spinning around. The father says very firmly, "Hey, pick that up." The child immediately picks up the Cheerio, puts it in his father's hand, and the father holds up the Cheerio, looks at the child, and says, "You see this Cheerio? It's a circle. Okay? There's an old medrish that talks about a magal, a circle, that every time we go through struggles in life, when things spill, when things fall over, we don't know what to do when there's chaos and uncertainty, and life is spinning seemingly out of control, we need to stop, we need to pause, we put our hand on the chaos, we control the chaos, we pick it up, and we pass it to our father. Who is our father in this case? Father in heaven, could be God, could be your actual father, but you dispel the chaos by offsetting it to the parent. As long as a child knows they can offset that chaos and that stress to their parent at a young age, they can grow up to be stable, secure individuals. As they grow up, they're going to have to hold on and contain the chaos themselves. And there's an obligation on the parents, specifically the father, to ensure that the child can contain that chaos in their hand, in their fingertips, when they're an adult. And it comes from a medrish found in a mishnah that says, "Magal magal de iko de lo rasha de nu savaluta." That one must control the circular chaos of this world, contain it in their hands, lest it spill out and damage the world. >> Wow. You got all that from a Cheerio? >> Yeah. >> Really? >> Well, I'm trying to get more speaking gigs. >> I see. Okay. >> To the internets? >> Yep. >> it? Okay.