Reply To: Where There’s A Will, There’s A Violation What The Torah Wants?

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July 13, 2009 9:19 pm at 9:19 pm #812350
oomis
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What if the oldest son is a rasha, and has ill-treated his parents? You hear all the time of children who dump their parents in nursing homes and abandon them, or worse, abuse them physically and mentally. Could Hashem possibly want that son to inherit double portions of the estate? And what if the oldest son is wealthy and the others are impoverished, but he is not the type of sibling to help his younger siblings out financially? What if the care of the elderly parents fell solely to a younger sibling, whose resources were used up in that time period of caring for them? Should that child not be reimbursed FIRST? I guess there are a lot of issues to sort out here.