A chinuch podcast with Rabbi Chananya Greenwald and Rabbi Chaim Yitzchak Yudkowsky that isn't just about tips and tricks. It's about coming home to ourselves so we can become home for our children.
Becoming Home
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Podcast Overview
A chinuch podcast with Rabbi Chananya Greenwald and Rabbi Chaim Yitzchak Yudkowsky that isn't just about tips and tricks. It's about coming home to ourselves so we can become home for our children.
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Publishing Since
1/3/2026
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Recent Episodes
April 28, 2026
Teaching Fear of G-d Without Anxiety [Becoming Home Podcast Ep.9]
<p>What does Yiras Shamayim really mean?</p><p></p><p>Rabbi Greenwald and Rabbi Yudkowsky challenge the common assumption that fear of Heaven means anxiety, dread, or living under constant pressure. They explore the difference between unhealthy fear and a kind of fear that deepens a person’s life, relationships, and inner world.</p><p></p><p>The discussion moves from childhood ideas of punishment and consequence into something much deeper. </p><p></p><p>They talk about how we can help children develop yirah, why bad metaphors about Hashem can be so damaging, how values are absorbed through modeling, and why skipping stages can create confusion or even religious trauma.</p><p></p><p>This is a conversation about moving from fear that constricts a person to one that opens a person up.</p><p></p><p>Timestamps</p><p></p><p>00:00 Fear That Protects Love</p><p>02:06 Bad Metaphors About Hashem</p><p>03:08 Parenting Respect Not Terror</p><p>10:33 Three Levels Of Yiras Shamayim</p><p>29:05 Awe Of Greatness In Practice</p><p>36:21 Expanding the Self</p><p>39:19 Modeling Values</p><p>41:24 Trauma and Fear</p><p>53:41 Truth and Love</p>
April 12, 2026
Love and Discipline in Parenting [Becoming Home Podcast Ep.8]
<p>What does real discipline look like in a Jewish home?</p><p>In this episode of Becoming Home, Rabbi Greenwald and Rabbi Yudkowsky explore a deeper framework for parenting — one that challenges the way we think about discipline, punishment, and love itself.</p><p>They unpack three aspects of love – how they work together and how in their absence disciplinary measures fail and create unintended damage.</p><p>They also distinguish between discipline, control, and helping a child realize their truest self. </p><p>Along the way, they touch on:</p><p>• When limits strengthen a child — and when they break them</p><p>• Why punishment often backfires in today’s world</p><p>• The difference between creating compliance and restoring free will</p><p>• What it means to discipline from clarity instead of reaction</p><p>• And how connection changes everything</p><p>This episode opens up a more nuanced, and sometimes uncomfortable, look at what it really means to guide a child — without losing them in the process.</p><p>Timestamps</p><p>00:00 What is discipline really for?</p><p>02:40 Three expressions of love (Ramchal)</p><p>06:15 Create strength vs. resistance</p><p>10:30 A hug of connection and boundaries</p><p>25:45 Punishment as a tool </p><p>30:30 Corporal punishment: why it rarely lands as intended</p><p>35:50 Discipline vs. control — restoring free will</p><p>41:10 When a child feels rejected</p><p>46:00 Clarity vs. reacting in the moment</p><p>54:10 Rethinking consequences</p><p>58:00 Influence of healthy discipline on a child</p>
March 23, 2026
Pesach-Gateway to healthy parenting [Becoming Home Podcast Ep. 7]
<p>As Pesach approaches, many families feel the pressure long before they feel the joy.</p><p>In this conversation, Rabbi Greenwald and Rabbi Yudkowsky explore how to prepare for the Seder in a way that is calmer, sweeter, and more connected. The atmosphere we create around Pesach shapes what our children will carry with them for years to come.</p><p>They share practical preparation to the deeper meaning of the Seder itself: how parents can make Yetzias Mitzrayim feel alive, how to speak to different kinds of children, and how the four sons are not just four personalities around the table, but parts of every one of us.</p><p>They also explores the tension built into the Seder night itself: pain and praise, struggle and freedom, brokenness and redemption. What does it mean to begin with degradation and end with praise? How do we help children, and ourselves, move from constriction to expansiveness?</p><p>Time Stamps:</p><p>00:00 Gratitude Mindset Reset</p><p>04:12 Make Prep Enjoyable</p><p>07:25 Joyful Yiddishkeit</p><p>09:31 Seder Prep Tips</p><p>12:34 Keep Kids Engaged</p><p>15:45 Four Sons Framework</p><p>17:49 Archetypes In All Of Us</p><p>36:02 Making Exodus Personal</p><p>40:14 Opening Every Child</p><p>42:36 Labels That Wound</p><p>49:30 Answering the Wise Son</p><p>54:53 From Degradation to Praise</p><p>01:09:21 Darkness Becomes Light</p><p>01:14:06 Emunah in the Night</p><p>----------</p><p>Listen to the Seder Crash Course Here: <a href="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/9c36d857-cba7-477a-afe0-91ed790b6edf.mp3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/9c36d857-cba7-477a-afe0-91ed790b6edf.mp3</a></p>
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