Table for Five: Yitro One verse, five voices. Edited by Salvador Litvak, the Accidental Talmudist Honor your father and your mother, in order that your days be lengthened on the land that the Lord, your God, is giving you. -Ex. 20:12 Romain Hini-Szlos Photographer, rhsgallery.com There’s a deeper meaning to this seemingly obvious directive: another way of honoring parents is to transmit their teaching to our own children, and to repeatedly mention their names to the next generation. My own children are still small, but if, in the future, one of my grandchildren quoted my teachings, I would consider it a profound and eternal way of honoring me. This is one way of keeping a family alive and thriving.