Comlink X, it was in response to his second post, Why do you care about chinuch?
Oops. 🙂
t must be realized that the purpose of food is health and nourishment, and to teach a child otherwise is wrong.
Here’s a little story about R’ Matisyohu Salomon, who we
can probably all agree knows a thing or two about chinuch.
A man brought a child along on a visit to R’ Matisyohu.
During the visit, he (or his Rebbetzin – I don’t remember,
it doesn’t matter) offered the visitor’s child a lollipop.
R’ Matisyohu urged the child (in Yiddish) to “Take the red one,
the red one is good.” When the visitor asked about Eisov having
requested “the red” food, he responded along the lines of (in Yiddish) “Children like the red – Eisav remained a child.”
(I don’t remember who I heard the story from.)