Teach your sons handicrafts which are suitable and helpful to the fear of God, lest by means of idleness they serve voluptuousness, for not being educated by their parents, they wickedly do works like the heathen. Therefore spare them not, but reprove and discipline and teach them, for by correcting them verily ye will not kill them, but rather ye will give them certain life, as also our Lord teacheth us in Wisdom and saith f. 65 b thus, " Chasten thy son because there is hope for him, for thou shalt beat ^ov' xix- (S. -I- him) with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from Sheol." And again Prov.xxiii.