By Rachel Simmons — 2015
It’s not easy to let our kids be less than perfect.
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This video is part of a series made possible by the Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah. What was your spiritual life like before you became a parent? Did it change when you became a parent? Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg argues that raising children can be its own form of spiritual practice.
"A lot of things change when you have a kid. And I was startled to realize how much my way of thinking about spirituality, and my understanding of my Jewish spiritual practice, got rearranged when I became a mom for the first time.
Every day, parents are bombarded by demands. The pressures of work and life are relentless; our children’s needs are often impossible to meet; and we rarely, if ever, allow ourselves the time and attention necessary to satisfy our own inner longings.