Gratitude to parents

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach writes a fitting tribute to his mother on the occasion of her 70th birthday.

I have often wondered why the Bible includes ‘Honor your father and mother’ among the ten most important moral commandments, right up there with not murdering or stealing. Perhaps the reason is this. Gratitude is the mother of all virtues, without which humanity is fundamentally underdeveloped and wholly incomplete.
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