Guarantors

Joey is a nice Jewish boy born to an atheist Jewish (what an oxymoron! But that’s for another week) family. The father is adamant about not giving his son a Jewish education, but, to his utter dismay, the only decent kindergarten in the neighborhood is Jewish. So, reluctantly, he sends Joey there. The first afternoon, Joey comes home from school and the proud father asks him to repeat what he learnt that morning. Joey proudly announces that he learnt that there is a G-d in this world! Slap! The father flies into a rage. “What kind of nonsense are they throwing into your head? There ain’t such a thing…”
When, throughout the week, Joey comes home announcing how G-d made the stars, and the ocean, the father decided to call the quits on this Jewish thing, and transfers his son to the local public school.
After a couple days Joey approaches his father: “Daddy please don’t hit me; I just want to ask you one question. In the first school they taught me that there is one G-d who created every thing. In the second school, I hear about the trinity and the son of G-d. I’m totally confused!”
The father responds impatiently: “Listen Joey, I’ll tell you once and once only: there is one G-d and we don’t believe in him!”

Our sages tell us that when G-d wanted to give the Torah, He approached the Jews asking them for a guarantor that they would keep the Torah and cherish it through out the generations. The Jews presented the sages as guarantors for the teaching and transmitting of Torah values throughout the generations. But G-d did not accept the offer.
They offered to have their ancestors serve as guarantors. And so on. Every offer was turned down by G-d until the Jews hit gold. They presented the children as their guarantee and G-d finally accepted.
Yes, it’s only through education that we’re promised the eternity of the Jewish nation. Parent to child to grandchild and so on; pass on the eternal values and golden legacy forever and ever.
It was the children in whose merit G-d descended on Mount Sinai and it is because of the Jewish children that we will soon merit the greatest and eternal revelation of G-dliness with the coming of our righteous Moshiach speedily in.