Education

“And when your child will ask you...” Devarim 6:20. The Torah associates the commemoration of the Exodus from Egypt with Jewish children. This is seen from the wording of the commandment to retell and relive the story of the Exodus:Shmos 13:8. “And you sh...

This remarkable document is, in great measure, a treatise on education and child-rearing.

Originally written as an educational guide for two venerable mashpi'im (spiritual mentors) in the original yeshivah in Lubavitch, this treatise by the sixth Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch has since serve as a classic definition and elucidation of what "educati...

A Jewish Wet Nurse... Lighting an Additional Shabbos Candle... Making the Child’s Room into a Mikdash Me’at... A Letter in a Torah Scroll...

A new perspective on EDUCATION which can save your community

Birth, coming of age, marriage, death … Judaism has celebrations and rituals associated with every major juncture in life.

"One who spares the rod, hates his child" -- what is the parctical meaning in this adage for today's parent?

Lamed is the twelfth letter of the Hebrew alphabet Numerical value: 30 Sound: "L" Meaning: 1. Learn 2. teach Story I was having a hard time disciplining one of my children. Whatever I tried didn’t work. I would tell him, “You will be punished, I won’t giv...

Our Rabbis taught:Berachot 17a. Cited in Reishit Chochmah, op. cit.; also in Shelah [“Shaar HaOtiot, Ot Daled,” under the entry of Derech Eretz.] Greater is the assurance made by the Holy One, blessed be He, to women, than to men; for it says,Isa. 32 [v. ...

G-d implanted in people the nature to delight in praise and to yearn for recompense - both moral and material - for upright and proper behavior. He instilled within them the nature to accept rebuke, and to admit the propriety of punishment which is deserv...