The Conquest of Fear: A Jewish Science View-Point (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Lichtenstein, Rabbi Morris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330428633 ISBN 13: 9781330428634

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2019

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Conquest of Fear: A Jewish Science View-Point

N 0 good purpose has ever been served by disturb ing the nerves of our little ones with the emotion of fear. A child, for example, may suffer more from the fear of a fall than from the fall itself. While it is true that the early steps of a child must be watched, and its early experiences guided, yet a guardianship based on the instilling of fear into the young soul, is far more harmful than any baleful experience which the unguarded child may en counter. It is seldom that an accident befalls a child through its own lack of care or experience; the instinct for self-preservation works strongly and unconsciously from the very earliest stages of childhood. God has created His creatures with the necessary provisions for the protection of life.

Many of the bumps, both actual and figurative, which the child receives, are nature's method of gently preparing the child for the greater hard ships, the heavier blows that she may ask him to encounter adequately later in life. And yet we see mothers endlessly warning their children not to jump, not to run, lest they fall; not to do this, not to do that, lest they be hurt, subduing the child with the fear of hurtful consequences, and crippling their development by barring them from necessary experiences. The child will not be hurt by countless falls, but the fear of the fall which has been bred into him, will leave an indelible and hurtful impress upon his nervous organism. It is God's intent that man be free from fear, and it is therefore that the soft babe from the day of its birth, is filled with trustfulness, and is free from fear and forebodings; but man, it seems, refuses to trust himself to higher forces, and prefers to harbor fear for himself and transmit it to his posterity.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1330428633
• ISBN 13: 9781330428634
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 26