DEUT251 Teaching Torah to one's children is a fundamental parental obligation. The Rabbis root this commandment in [this] biblical verse [also see Deuteronomy 11:19]. According to the Talmud, a father is obliged to teach his children, or to arrange otherwise for their Jewish education. Thus parents should not move to a city that does not have adequate educational opportunities for children; if they do so, they bear full responsibility for their children's Jewish education. From Judaism's perspective, parents who do not provide for their children's Jewish education are as negligent as those who do not make the effort to provide their children with other basic necessities. Just as a child is deprived of essential material needs cannot function in society, a Jew deprived of Jewish knowledge will not know how to live and act as a Jew.