Parashas Bechukosai · tochacha · Passuk 39 · Unit 1
Torah Temimah cites Sanhedrin 27b: children suffer for parents’ sins only when they continue those deeds.
English: When do they pine for the iniquities of their fathers with them? When they hold fast to their fathers’ deeds. (Otherwise each dies for his own sin.)
Conditioned intergenerational derasha.
Ancestral sin affects children only when they persist in the same path.