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Our daf mentions that:
Do not be present when an inheritance is transferred even from a bad son to a good son
Rav Moshe Sofer, the Chasam Sofer, explains that the bad son does not refer to a son who is a heretic; rather it refers to one who is either not so careful in his fulfillment of mitzvos or is disrespectful to his father.
The implication of this comment is that it would be permitted to transfer property away from a child who is a heretic so that he should not receive anything as an inheritance.
We explore the good son/bad son spectrum from different perspectives ending the the famous story of StrubelPeter the slovenly son, adapted by Mark Twain and appropriated by the Nazis and parodied by the Allies.
Ending with Yehoshua Haparu’a in Israel.