As parents and teachers, we recognize the necessity of developing intellectual and physical muscles. But we need to develop our children's souls too. While that may sound easy enough, Rabbi Amy Eilberg says the secular nature of American society makes spiritual discussions difficult for parents. There's this fear we'll lose our modern quality and go back to the shtetl . And she suggests looking to the wisdom of youth for direction.
Intellect rushes in.
Children, she said, naturally engage in less intellectual dialogue, talking often, for example, to invisible imagined characters. But we all unlearned it. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any form without permission.