✉️ Get Rabbi Landau’s daily video by emailSign up
Rivnitz Donate

Modern parenting keeps missing the mark.

  • By Rabbi Landau
  • Duration: 59 seconds
Modern parenting keeps missing the mark.

Rabbi Landau teaches Modern parenting keeps missing the mark.

Instagram caption

Modern parenting keeps missing the mark.

Parents swing between two extremes:
Best friends.
Or dictators.

Both damage a child.

Chazal gave the blueprint centuries ago:
שמאל דוחה וימין מקרבת
Push away with one hand.
Pull close with the other.

Always “yes” isn’t love.
It’s abandonment dressed as kindness.

Always “no” isn’t strength.
It’s fear dressed as control.

The Torah model is simple:
You are not equals, but you are close.
You lead without crushing.
You love without surrendering.

Firm voice.
Soft eyes.
Boundaries with attachment.

A parent who can’t say “no” loses their child.
A parent who can’t say “yes” loses their soul.

The Torah way lets you keep both.

✨ Spread the light → https://rivnitz.com/light

Questions this teaching answers

Follow us on Facebook