 The Midrash thus taught that "if you keep" (God's commandments), then "you shall be kept" (and your souls shall be guarded).A Baraita deduced from the words "you shall make them known to your children, and your children's children" in that if a parent teaches a child Torah, Scripture ascribes merit as though the parent had taught the child, the child's children, and so on, until the end of all time.Rabbi Joshua ben Levi taught that if a parent teaches a child (or some say a grandchild) Torah, Scripture accounts it as if the parent had received the Torah at Mount Sinai, as says, "And you shall make them known to your children and your children's children," and immediately thereafter, says, "The day that you stood before the Lord your God in Horeb."