Know Your Children with Rav Shlomo Katz

24. Are You Teaching Mitzvot But Forgetting The Soul?

In this final class of the year on the sefer Know Your Children, Rav Shlomo Katz and the women of Shirat David explore what it truly means to make Hashem the center of yo

23. Why Do We Really Want Our Kids to Be Religious?

What are we really hoping for when we say we want our children to be religious? In this week's episode, Rav Shlomo Katz and the women of Shirat David explore one of the

22. The Significance of Jewish Parenting

What changes when we stop seeing parenting as behavior management… and start seeing it as caring for a נשמה? In this deeply moving episode of Know Your Children, Rav Shl

21. Parenting Based on the First Word of the Ten Commandments

Rav Shlomo Katz and the women of Shirat David explore the Gemara’s teaching that “Anochi” means: “Ana Nafshi Kesavis Yehavis” — “I gave over My soul.” From there, he open

20. What Do You Ask Your Child When They Come Home From Shul?

What happens when a child goes to shul… but never develops a taste for tefillah? In this deeply honest episode of Know Your Children, Rav Shlomo Katz and the women of Sh

19. The Parenting Mistake of Confusing Empathy with Permission

Rav Shlomo Katz and the women of Shirat David continue exploring one of the most misunderstood יסודות in parenting: the difference between acknowledgment and enabling. B

18. The Hidden Message Behind “What’s for Dinner?”

There’s a question every home faces almost every day. “What’s for dinner?” It sounds simple. Maybe even trivial. But in this shiur, Rav SHlomo Katz and the women of Shir

17. How Am I Supposed to Know How to Truly Parent?

Parenting can feel like you’re expected to know how to do something you’ve never done before — and then do it differently for each child. In this week’s Know Your Childr

16. Developing My Child’s World of Emotions

This week’s shiur comes with a warning: parenting is triggering because it not only exposes our children’s inner world, it exposes ours. Rav Shlomo Katz and the women of

15. Love Puts Everything In Perspective

When parenting gets loud—mischief, nerves, anger—what actually brings you back to yourself? Rav Shlomo Katz and the women of Shirat David continue the conversation about

14. Crucial Thoughts of Love

Rav Shlomo Katz and the women of Shirat David move from “Do they feel our love?” to something even more subtle, and often more powerful: do they live inside our loving th

13. The Need for Verbal Expression

What if your child knows you love them… but rarely hears it? In this week’s Know Your Children, Rav Shlomo Katz and the women of Shirat David draw a sharp line between a

12. Do Our Children Always Know That We Love Them?

Do our kids know we love them… but still not always feel it? Rav Shlomo Katz and the women of Shirat David take on one of the most sensitive (and real) parenting questio

11. My Needs vs. My Child’s Needs

In parenting, we want to believe our love is perfect — automatic, limitless, and always putting our child first. But real life has a way of testing that fantasy. Rav Shl

10. The Essentiality of Love BEFORE Chinuch

In this new perek of Da Es Yeladecha, Rav Shlomo Katz and the women of Shirat David go straight at a question that sounds “too obvious” to even ask: why do parents need t

9. Nourishing our Children’s Soul

Rav Shlomo Katz and the women of Shirat David explore one of the most basic and most misunderstood foundations of parenting: love. Not love as a feeling we assume is obv

8. Experiencing our Children as Souls

In this week’s Know Your Children, we take a courageous, very triggering step inward: Can I look at my child not only as “my kid,” but as a neshamah —a soul that may even

7. Harmonious Authority

This week we face the question every home is asking: how do we hold yedidut (friendship) and mashma’ut (discipline) together—without losing either? Rav Shlomo Katz and

6. My Child, My Friend, My Child

In this week’s shiur, Rav Shlomo Katz invites us to re-examine the core of chinuch: can a parent be both moreh (teacher) and chaver (friend) without blurring roles? We re

5. Do I Want to Know My Child’s World?

In this week’s shiur, Rav Shlomo Katz asks the heart-level question: Do I Want to Know My Child’s World? We deepen last week’s kesher nafshi—a two-way soul-bond—by faci