GEN334 The parent’s obligation to circumcise a son, to redeem him, and to teach him Torah, relates to the parent’s duty to ensure the perpetuation of tradition and to have the child initiated into the Jewish community.  In so doing, the child’s history mates with his destiny.  Teaching the child Torah aims not only at helping to ensure the continuation of tradition, but it attempts to assure an intellectually, morally, and spiritually developed person.  The parent’s obligation to have the child wed, to teach him a craft, and to teach him practical citizenship, relates to the parent’s duty to permit the child to become an independent citizen of society.  A crucial step toward the child’s independence is his or her becoming independent from the parent.  Marriage is considered a critical step in a person’s independence from his or her parent.  With marriage, the child’s primary relationship and source of identify is as a spouse rather than as a child. [Nahmanides on this verse]. HTBAJ 180