This morning we discuss the best graduation speech I have heard in a long time, as reported by Sivan Rahav Meir. As young people leave the cocoon of school and enter the reality of our chaotic and confusing world, how do they (and we) maintain our values and principles in the face of what is popular and easy? By learning from our Parsha, Shelach, to look to the past, and to the future. Congratulations to my grandson in New York, and my granddaughter in Toronto, who have both graduated from kindergarten, and to all graduates!

Michael Whitman is the senior rabbi of ADATH Congregation in Hampstead, Quebec, and an adjunct professor at McGill University Faculty of Law. ADATH is a modern orthodox synagogue community in suburban Montreal, providing Judaism for the next generation. We take great pleasure in welcoming everyone with a warm smile, while sharing inspiration through prayer, study, and friendship.

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