Parenting with Torah
Rabbi Elimelech Friedman's teaching gives a central place to parenting and raising children with Torah values. His class titled The GPS and Waze to Have Good Children captures his style — a familiar, everyday image used to open a serious conversation about how parents guide their kids. He tends to blend warmth and a touch of humor with genuinely practical advice, which makes the guidance easy to take in and easy to remember.
In a talk like Give Vitamin I to Your Children, he offers parents concrete, memorable ideas rather than abstract ideals about child-rearing. His emphasis falls on modeling good behavior and building strong, loving relationships within the home. For parents in the thick of raising a family, that practical and encouraging tone is a large part of the appeal — the sense of a teacher handing over tools they can actually use tonight.
Decorate Your Shabbat Table
A signature part of Rabbi Friedman's library is his Decorate Your Shabbat Table series, which brings the weekly parsha directly to the family meal. Working through portions such as Vayechi, Shemot, and Va'eira, he offers ideas meant to be shared at the Shabbat table — Torah dressed for the setting where a family actually gathers. The name says it plainly: the parsha becomes something to adorn and enliven the meal.
This format is thoughtful about how Torah enters a home. Rather than asking parents to carve out separate study time, it gives them material designed for a moment that already exists in the week. A parsha thought ready for the table lowers the barrier to family learning and helps turn Shabbat into a time of shared Torah, making the series a favorite among families looking to enrich their Shabbat traditions.
Marriage and the family unit
Rabbi Friedman also teaches on dating and marriage, offering guidance that is both grounded in halacha and attentive to the emotional side of building a relationship. His work here fits the larger shape of his teaching: a steady focus on the Jewish family and everything that goes into making it healthy, from the marriage at its center to the children being raised within it.
That family-first orientation gives his library a clear identity. Whether the subject is parenting, the Shabbat table, or marriage, the aim is to strengthen the home as a whole. He connects Torah to the concrete details of family life in a conversational, approachable way, which makes his classes especially valuable for parents working to pass on Torah values to the next generation and to each other.
Finding kosher Torah video for your family
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At a glance
Key takeaways
- Rabbi Friedman focuses on parenting and raising children with Torah values.
- His Decorate Your Shabbat Table series brings the weekly parsha to the family meal.
- That format hands parents Torah made for a moment that already exists in the week.
- He also teaches marriage, with a consistent focus on strengthening the whole home.
- Search FilteredTube for kosher, approved Torah video — the catalog grows every day.