Know Your Children with Rav Shlomo Katz
Rav Shlomo Katz
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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 deepest questions in Jewish…
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 Shlomo Katz and the women of…
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 opens a deeply practical…
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 Shirat David explore the tension…
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.Building on the concept of chush…
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 Shirat David uncover how that…
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 Children, Rav Shlomo Katz and the…
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 Shirat David continue the…
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 love, but take it somewhere…
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 thoughts?Building on the…
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 ahavah nisteret (love that…
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 questions: a parent can be full of…
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 Shlomo Katz and the women of…
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 to love their children? And…
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 obvious, and not love as a concept…
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 be higher than mine?Building…
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 the women of Shirat David learn…
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 return to last week’s kesher…
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 facing a common gap: many parents…
4. Aiming Towards a Kesher Nafshi
In this week’s shiur, Rav Shlomo Katz continues our journey in Know Your Children toward a deeper parent–child bond—נפשו קשורה בנפשו / kesher nafshi—a two-way soul connection modeled by Yaakov and…
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Know Your Children with Rav Shlomo Katz has published 23 episodes since September 2025, covering topics in Judaism, Kids & Family.
Know Your Children with Rav Shlomo Katz is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 53m.
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