What is the meaning of "Shma l'Avicha Zeh Yeladecha"?
R. Yonah: You know that his love is clear to you, and his rebuke is from refined, faithful love.
Malbim: This commands him to accept the laws of Chachmah from his father, and not be in doubt about his reception, lest it is Sheker. He fathered you - a father does not bequeath Sheker to his son!
Why does it say "v'Al Tavoz Ki Zaknah Imecha"?
R. Yonah #1: Do not despise your mother, even though Chachmah is not found in women. When she is old, she has Chachmah of experiences. She will testify to you what her ears heard and her eyes saw.
R. Yonah #2: Do not despise her words, even though she is old. She is a burden on others, for she needs others, and cannot help herself.
Malbim: Do not disgrace ways of conduct that you receive from your mother, due to her old age. Do not think that these conducts were good for the first generation, but not the new generation, and that they are good for old people, but not for youths, in whom desire burns.
