Let’s face it – parenting is a flood of emotions. Tantrums, tears, and timeouts? This too is Torah.
At the end of our fall holiday cycle and so many intense days of inwardness, prayer and community, it's not unusual to hear people say something along the lines of "I'm so glad that life is back to normal, now I can get back on track." This raises a couple of wonderful questions. What is the point of the Jewish holidays? What should we take with us as we head into "hol"--into mundane time?
During rabbinical school I spent one summer doing a unit of clinical pastoral education at a hospital in Michigan. My reasoning for spending that time in a hospital setting was twofold. First, I needed to get over some of my fear of the hospital environment and learn how to bring the most comfort to the most vulnerable.
Welcome to the first video in the Parenting by the Parshah series. Parenting is making order out of chaos. Alphabetizers and color coordinators, this video is for you!
Yesterday was a difficult day. Even’t if I hadn’t been accidentally woken at 5:30 am by an ill-timed Siri alarm, it still would have been a day filled with emotional extremes.
Once again, we are shocked and saddened as a nation. Once again, our halls of education, meant to be a sanctuary from the worst of the world, are bloodied. Once again, we hear expressions of outrage and calls for new legislation aimed at preventing or reducing the periodic and murderous violence that erupts in our schools and colleges.
I often talk about parenthood on my blog, but I wanted to create a series dedicated specifically to parenting lessons in the Torah. Welcome to Parenting by the Parshah. Look for the first video, Bereshit, next week!
