Raising Jewish kids. Special guest Rabbi David Paskin
Rabbi David talks about what children have to teach us. With Evelyn “Ms. Eve” Goldfinger from @torahtron
This conversation is inspired by “Words From My Heart, the hands on Jewish Prayer Book”, which helps children and their grownups explore spirituality and Jewish prayer.❤️ Words From My Heart… is a hands-on, scrapbook-style book that includes activities, games, songs, Hebrew words, and prayers. You can ORDER at www.shalomeve.com or at Amazon. Also available en ESPAÑOL Listen to the Raising Jewish Kids podcast on Applecast, Spotify, Amazon Music or on Audible.
My favorite takeaways:
🌟 Learn from the kids to be spontaneous and to get unstuck. Don’t just spin dreidels… paint with dreidels!
🌟 “Wow!” is a fundamental building block of Jewish spirituality. (See A. J. Heschel Radical Amazement)
🌟 Being a futurist means you don’t react to what happens in the future. You build the future. Create a Judaism as an open source, where people have the building blocks to create heir Jewish identity.
🌟 Know where you are going. Even if you don’t know the road you are going to take. Like facing back at the back of a wagon while just watching the trees go by. “Give yourself the gift of trusting that G*d will get you where you need to go. And don’t, for a moment, stop counting the trees.” Rabbi David Paskin
🌟 Kids have questions about life, G*d, and mystery. We should allow those conversations even if there’s trepidation on our part. No one has all the answers and there are multiple perspectives. It’s a journey.
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Find Rabbi David at
@davidpaskin (IG and FB)
www.davidpaskin.com
www.gansinai.org
David Paskin (on Spotify)