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The week exploded with joy: a healthy baby boy, hospital runs, school interviews for our four-year-old, and more miles on the Parkway than we can count. In the rush, a harder truth surfaced—our Gemara seat sat empty—and that stung. So we turned to Vayera for clarity and found a verse that hit like a bell: God doesn’t single out Avraham for breaking idols, debating kings, or even building a tent of radical hospitality. The love lands here—he teaches his children and his household to keep the way of God.
That insight flips the scoreboard most of us carry in our heads. Public greatness is good; parenting is greater. We unpack how Avraham’s legacy makes the home the primary beit midrash and why brief, consistent moments with our kids—ten minutes of Torah, a Shabbat table that lives, a nightly story or song—can shape identity more deeply than any speech. We talk about brit milah as a parent’s obligation, the danger of outsourcing chinuch, and the quiet power of modeling growth where children can see it and feel it. When kids trust that love guides our choices, they’ll walk beside us even on steep paths.
You’ll hear practical ways to turn family life into lasting learning: questions at dinner that spark wonder, small rituals that stack into memory, check-ins that teach integrity as clearly as halacha. Work matters. Learning matters. But raising a child in God’s ways is where love and duty meet, and that conviction can redeem a week that might look “unproductive” on paper. If God loved Avraham for being a father first, we can reorder our homes—and our calendars—to follow suit. If this conversation speaks to you, subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a review with one family ritual you’ll start tonight.
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Chapters
1. A Week Of New Life (00:00:00)
2. Joys, Errands, And Dad Duty (00:01:31)
3. Tension Between Study And Family (00:02:03)
4. Turning To The Parsha For Clarity (00:02:53)
5. Abraham’s Public Greatness Recounted (00:03:21)
6. The Torah’s Secret Of Divine Love (00:07:30)
7. Teaching Children As First Duty (00:09:20)
8. Reframing Time: Parenting As Avodah (00:11:30)
9. Patriarchs As Fathers And Mothers (00:12:12)
10. Mitzvot Centered On Parent To Child (00:13:00)
11. Home As The Primary Beit Midrash (00:14:00)
12. Model Fathers And Loyal Sons (00:16:10)
13. Make Shabbos Your Family Summit (00:17:50)
14. Be A Hands-On Parent Daily (00:20:20)
15. A Bris And A Personal Commitment (00:22:48)
16. Organizing Life Around Your Children (00:24:00)
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