Know Your Children with Rav Shlomo Katz – Details, episodes & analysis

In this week’s shiur, Rav Shlomo Katz takes last week’s funnel and makes it practical. It’s not enough to have powerful Torah and holy intentions—if the צינור, the pipeline between parent and child, has leaks, what we’re trying to pour in never really arrives.

Together we learn:

• The bridge before the message: why “content of chinuch” is stage two, and stage one is building a genuine bridge of trust and safety.
• Two channels that actually land: ma’aseh (personal example lived with simchah) and dibbur (speaking in a way that can be received—be’ofen hamitkabel).
• Age-gap wisdom: how to match language to a child’s kelî kibbul (capacity), and why over-pouring causes shut-down.
• Emet, Simchah, Savlanut: the core middot that seal the leaks—humility to listen, honesty to live what we say, and patience to pace what we give.
• From teaching to mesirah: “Moshe kibel… umesarah l’Yehoshua”—chinuch is not lecturing; it’s transmitting, intact, heart to heart.
• A tefillah approach: why we daven while we learn parenting Torah, so the words don’t stay ideas—they become life.

Practical takeaways:

• Identify one “leak” in your pipeline (tone, timing, vocabulary, pace) and patch it this week.
• Share one value in child-level language and model it with a small, joyful action before you explain it.
• End the day with a 30-second tefillah for the bridge between you and each child.

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In this opening shiur, Rav Shlomo Katz begins our journey through Da Et Yeladecha with the image of a funnel. Parents often try to “pour” everything they know and feel straight into their children. But without the right structure, much of it spills out.

Together we explore:

• Why chinuch begins with building an infrastructure—a bridge of emet (truth)—between parent and child.
• How age gaps create differences not just in understanding but in emotional perception, and how to meet children where they are.
• Why you can only give over what you’re genuinely living or actively working on.
• Practical mindset: Instead of perfection, aim for honesty and effort—your children will see and absorb the work itself.

This shiur sets the foundation for the series: learning how to give in a way that truly lands so that the love and values we want to pass on actually reach our children.

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