Family & the Parsha

Purpose Behind Family

The Children See

Reward for Education

Choose Life

Children Always Come First

Build Your Foundation

Don't Play Favorite

Bring Them In

Compromise at the Door

Good for our Children's Children

Journey of Life

Part of a Long History

Unbreakable

Good Home

Engraved in Soul

Wisdom of Women

Always Together

Even In The Family

The Power of Blessing

Counted From Birth

Like the Leviyim in he time of the Mishkan, a Jewish baby who is born to a Torah-observent family comes in to a life og G-d worship from birth.

Large Families - The Jewish Ideal

Altough it would seem that the larger the family, the less the parents can give, studies show that the Jewish Ideal of large families contributes to better education and to a happier life.

Helping Your Brother

The Torah tells us that in the same way we would not take interest from our brother we should not do this to any jew as we are all brothers.

Holidays - Quality Time with the Family

Even more than Shabbat, the Holidays are a time in which families get together and strengthen the bonds of love.

Don't Sin, For Your Child's Sake

Unfair as it might be towards the child born from an act of adultery, his Mamzer status which will haunt him for life, is the strongest deterrent the torah could set for the parents of this poor child, making them think twice before committing this grave sin.

A Wedding Every Month

The law of family purity brings extra love into the family.

Serving G-d through Silence

After Aharon loses two of his children he remains silent and accepts the willof G-d without questions.

The Birth of a Nation

Much like a child being born, the nation of Israel broke through the waters of the red sea and were then fed directly by G-d until they were ready to stand on their own.

Parenting Never Ends

Taking care of our children doesn't end when they grow up or get married, we must always be there for them with the same passion and guide them in the right path.

A Leader's Apology

As parents we often make mistakes. This week's Parsha teaches us that even the leader of the nation is not expected to be perfect. He is, however, expected to publicly acknowledge his mistakes and apologize for them.

Redemption through Love II

In this week's parsha we find that in the same way that Aharon did not envy Moshe for being the leader, Moshe did not envy Aharon for having his sons continue in the Cehunah role.

Passion is the Key

If we do Mitzvot with passion it influences our children more than anything else.

Serving G-d's will

As parents we must teach our children that we are not asking them to serve G-d for us, but for G-d himself.

Levels of Faith

The pegs holding down the covering of the Mishkan teach us an important lesson it the levels of faith we should expect our children to gain.

Family is Strength

The Torah commands us to help those who do not have a family for they do not have anyone else to look out for them.

Being a Father / Honour Your In-Laws

Why does Yitro refer to Moshe's sons as "Your wife's sons"? Where was Moshe on Yitro's conversion feast?

The Shabbat Meals

Nothing brings a family closer than a correctly handled Shabbat Meal. How do we make sure we do not miss this great opportunity presented to us by Shabbat?

The Joy of Children

Moshe's will to take the youth with him to serve Hashem comes from the will to have the happiness and joy of children with them on the holiday.

Redemption through Love

Throughout Sefer Bereshit there is a line of family quarrels and brotherly hatred that eventually lead the sons of Israel to exile. I Sefer Shemot a new story is told, a story of a nation's redemption flowing through the brotherly love of the great leaders Moshe and Aharon.

Keeping an Optimistic view

Some may ask, why bring more children into this cruel world. In this week's parsha Miriam teaches us that when bringing children to the world we do not think about the moment but rather about the bright future which we believe lies ahead.

Blessing The Children

For genrations jewish parents have been blessing their children "May you be like Ephraim and Menashe". Why were Yoseph's sons chosen over the three fathers to be the source for this blessing?