Inspiring Parenting

What will seder night look like for you this year? What new insights, teachings or activities do you want to share at your table to make the experience of leaving mitzrayim come alive? Briefly touching upon many of the 15 steps of the Seder night we explore three aspects of our very own slavery and liberation - Physical, Spiritual, and Emotional.

Pardes’s Tovah Leah Nachmani together with Ayeka’s Dasee Berkowitz invite you to learn about their some of our most meaningful ideas they have used at their seders. They hope it can inspire your own!

Accompanying Source Sheet

How often do we share our personal and life transforming stories with our kids? Passover is the time. Storytelling is a well-worn vehicle for transmitting values and identity across the generations. This Passover, we want to inspire our children to become more curious about the elders in their lives and the elders about their children. We want to turn the hearts of the parents to the children and the hearts of the children to their parents. Join Ayeka’s Dasee Berkowitz and Pardes’s Tovah Leah Nachmani as they share their own questions and experiences of storytelling on Passover and beyond, in this edition of Inspired Parenting.

Accompanying Source Sheet

In the third and final part of this new mini-series on Inspired Parenting, Dasee Berkowitz and Tovah Leah Nachmani focus on Generosity. Who is the most generous person you know? Reflecting on the transformative powers of giving as well as receiving, Dasee and Tovah Leah discuss 3 ways to show up in the world “with our eyes wide open” - focusing on why we give, what we give, and how we give. By clarifying our own ideas about giving, we can invite our families to engage in a conversation about how to live generously.

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In the second part of this new mini-series on Inspired Parenting, Dasee Berkowitz and Tovah Leah Nachmani focus on Prayerfulness. How can our children help us to become more prayerful people? What can we learn from them and what can they learn from us, in order to bring more prayerfulness into our parenting? Dasee and Tovah Leah reflect on 3 tools to prayerful living: Listening to our yearnings, Noticing what is rushing by us, and choosing a personal prayer - as spiritual practices for Inspired Parenting.

Click here for accompanying source sheet.

Click here for more episodes in the series. 

If you enjoyed this series and would like to be kept up-to-date on future podcasts from Inspired Parenting, please email [email protected].

In the second part of this new mini-series on Inspired Parenting, Dasee Berkowitz and Tovah Leah Nachmani focus on Prayerfulness. How can our children help us to become more prayerful people? What can we learn from them and what can they learn from us, in order to bring more prayerfulness into our parenting? Dasee and Tovah Leah reflect on 3 tools to prayerful living: Listening to our yearnings, Noticing what is rushing by us, and choosing a personal prayer - as spiritual practices for Inspired Parenting.

Click here for accompanying source sheet.

Click here for more episodes in the series. 

If you enjoyed this series and would like to be kept up-to-date on future podcasts from Inspired Parenting, please email [email protected].

About Tovah Leah Nachmani and Dasee Berkowitz

Tovah Leah has been teaching Bible, Liturgy and Prayer and Relationships at Pardes for 14 years. In addition, she has written and guided experiential learning programs at the Women’s Beit Midrash in Efrat, where she previously taught Prayer and Jewish Thought. Tovah Leah was a Jewish educator and program director for Livnot U’Lehibanot (“To Build and Be Built”) in Tzfat and Jerusalem, during which she co-authored the widely-used song book “Zemirot from Livnot.” She also served as Assistant Educational Director for Ayeka. She believes in learning which connects the mind to the heart. Tovah Leah and her husband Gabi, who live in Gush Etzion, have seven children and a number of grandchildren. Contact her at [email protected].

Dasee Berkowitz is an educator, writer and director of Ayeka’s Becoming Soulful Parent project, which trains North American educators to facilitate meaningful conversations around parenting, inspired by Jewish wisdom. Dasee has over 20 years of experience working in informal education internationally. After being awarded the Ralph I. Goldman fellowship, she has served as an educational consultant to AJJDC, Makom and the JCC Association. Currently she brings her passion for family engagement to Kehilat Zion in Jerusalem. Dasee’s writing about soulful parenting appears in Kveller.com, JTA, Forward.com, Haaretz and Times of Israel. She currently lives in Jerusalem with her husband and three children. Contact her at [email protected].

In the first part of this new mini-series on Inspired Parenting, Dasee Berkowitz and Tovah Leah Nachmani focus on Teshuva. How can our children help us to change for the better? How can our preparation for Rosh Hashana empower us to “inscribe ourselves in the Book of Life?” Dasee and Tovah Leah reflect on 3 tools: Parental vulnerability, Family leadership, and the “Work of the Now” to get ourselves unstuck as parents, and inspire a deeper connection with our children.

Click here for accompanying source sheet.

Click here for more episodes in the series. 

If you enjoyed this series and would like to be kept up-to-date on future podcasts from Inspired Parenting, please email [email protected].

In the first part of this new mini-series on Inspired Parenting, Dasee Berkowitz and Tovah Leah Nachmani focus on Teshuva. How can our children help us to change for the better? How can our preparation for Rosh Hashana empower us to “inscribe ourselves in the Book of Life?” Dasee and Tovah Leah reflect on 3 tools: Parental vulnerability, Family leadership, and the “Work of the Now” to get ourselves unstuck as parents, and inspire a deeper connection with our children.

Click here for accompanying source sheet.

Click here for more episodes in the series. 

If you enjoyed this series and would like to be kept up-to-date on future podcasts from Inspired Parenting, please email [email protected].

About Tovah Leah Nachmani and Dasee Berkowitz

Tovah Leah has been teaching Bible, Liturgy and Prayer and Relationships at Pardes for 14 years. In addition, she has written and guided experiential learning programs at the Women’s Beit Midrash in Efrat, where she previously taught Prayer and Jewish Thought. Tovah Leah was a Jewish educator and program director for Livnot U’Lehibanot (“To Build and Be Built”) in Tzfat and Jerusalem, during which she co-authored the widely-used song book “Zemirot from Livnot.” She also served as Assistant Educational Director for Ayeka. She believes in learning which connects the mind to the heart. Tovah Leah and her husband Gabi, who live in Gush Etzion, have seven children and a number of grandchildren. Contact her at [email protected].

Dasee Berkowitz is an educator, writer and director of Ayeka’s Becoming Soulful Parent project, which trains North American educators to facilitate meaningful conversations around parenting, inspired by Jewish wisdom. Dasee has over 20 years of experience working in informal education internationally. After being awarded the Ralph I. Goldman fellowship, she has served as an educational consultant to AJJDC, Makom and the JCC Association. Currently she brings her passion for family engagement to Kehilat Zion in Jerusalem. Dasee’s writing about soulful parenting appears in Kveller.com, JTA, Forward.com, Haaretz and Times of Israel. She currently lives in Jerusalem with her husband and three children. Contact her at [email protected].