Rabbi Binyamin Yuhanan - Parenting Advice from Our Sages that have Lasted Through the Ages (Zoom)

What’s said in this shiur

The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Binyamin Yuhanan’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] good evening we're continuing our series on parenting and today we're going to on parenting and today we're going to learn the insights the hints that our sages gave in the Torah in the prophets and in the Talmud as well as later writings on how to raise our children and how to make sure that even when they grow up they will be good people good Jews on the on the proper path so we art Jews on the on the proper path so we art with the famous statement of Casa small door heavy Ameen mckerrod a very important principle one of the most important principles in interacting with your children is small dolphin if you want to push away your child use your left hand they are mean we cut it and if you are drawing your child close to you use your right hand what does it mean use your right hand what does it mean the left hand pushes away while the right hand draws near and the meaning of that is that the left hand of most people is weaker the right hand is more powerful therefore our sages are telling us that in our relationship with a child the more emphasis should be placed on the more emphasis should be placed on drawing the child close to you that means showing him love showing him attention showing him respect and the weaker and the less dominant part of your education system should be rebuking setting limits lecturing and that we're gonna come back a few times at

Jump to a moment

1. 0:02[Music] good evening we're continuing our series on parenting and today we're going to…
2. 5:49oh you're strict why you don't let me do this and that are the parents let…
3. 12:09praises and again the right hand the stronger hand should be used most of the time…
4. 18:26frightened at the time about the temptation he was exposed to and he needed the controls…
5. 24:41even the surface dreaming your first parent in the world I hate you you mean believe…
6. 31:02away my freedom I'm gonna a little bit the connection should not be so clear so…
7. 37:23now one more idea about limits and if a child asks you for something now the…
8. 43:36they whip you or kill you there is no such rule that the child has to…
9. 50:41inclination you yetzer hara the satan is jumping in your heart at that moment it's very…
10. 57:01create a in a happy at home they would become smiling I would start everybody it…

Every second of this shiur plays inside FilteredTube — a filtered YouTube library where each video was reviewed against one written standard before it could appear. No ads, no comments, no autoplay into anything unapproved.