Choosing Our Reality: The Power We Reaffirm on Rosh Hashanah
This week's parsha, Netzavim, arrives right before Rosh Hashanah, when we're asked what we want written in the Book of Life. This episode is about the freedom that question assumes: the power to choose our perceptions instead of accepting them as fixed reality. That choice matters most at home. When we decide our kid is "the difficult one" or a rough season is "just how our family is," we treat a perception as truth, and our belief keeps the pattern going. The story you tell about your child becomes the reality they grow up inside. This year, choose it deliberately.
20 Aug 2026
Remembering to Remember
This week's parsha, Ki Teitzei, commands us to build a fence around the roof of a new house, and the Chassidic masters read it as protecting the new self we commit to building each year: a fence that holds in who we are and holds out who we're not. That's also the job description of a parent. Our kids forget who they are constantly, in every meltdown and lie, and we're meant to be the ones who remember for them. This episode is about reflecting your child's true self back to them, and about who does that for you.
13 Aug 2026
Is Authenticity a Mitzvah?
This week's parsha, Shoftim, bans every form of fortune-telling and then commands us to be tamim, which one commentator defines as someone whose insides match their outsides. It's a lesson about the compulsion to predict and control the future, and no one knows that compulsion better than a modern parent surrounded by expert advice, studies, and books promising the right inputs will produce the right kid. This episode is about doing your homework and then trusting your gut about what your particular child needs, and why tamim means whole, not perfect. Your kids need the real you, not the optimized one.
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