The Case against Passive Parenting

You Can’t Control the Result, but You Can Certainly Control the Process

With Rabbi Ari Sollish

(Recorded live at the Intown Jewish Academy on June 8, 2022)

In one the Bible’s most rousing stories, a weeping childless woman makes a solemn vow to consecrate her son to G-d, should she be so blessed. The woman is Chanah, and the son the prophet Samuel. From what would appear to be a dubiously legal move, we learn that parents must do their utmost to guide their children along the proper path.