Posts by: Shais Taub

Every Child Is Special

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What do parents do when a child just doesn't "fit the mold"? At the annual dinner for Legadel, a London UK organization that provides support to children who are not thriving in school, Rabbi Shais Taub presents words of encouragement and inspiration about how the job of parents is to cherish that which makes each child different rather than stifle it.

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Lifting Up Our Daughters

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How do we raise our daughters to want to commit their lives to Torah? We lift them up.

This talk, presented at the annual dinner of Beis Chaya Mushka Monsey, discusses the education of girls and young women in the context of two different types of self-sacrifice which correspond to the two holidays of Pesach and Shavuos.

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How to Motivate a Jew: The Secret of What Drives Us

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What incentives drive us to do mitzvos? What is the key difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation? And what does it have to do with the prohibition of "new flour"?

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Raising an Emotionally Healthy Chasidisher Teen

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Rabbi Taub addresses parents at Beth Rivkah High School in Crown Heights, Brooklyn about how to raise emotionally healthy teens.

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Message to Jewish School Principals

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Rabbi Taub addresses the CounterForce Principals Conference in Boro Park attended by over one hundred Jewish school principals.

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The Alef of Jewish Education

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Before you can teach a child how great our Torah is, you must teach the child how great he or she is. Rabbi Shais Taub to Parents of ULY Crown Street.

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A Parent's Power

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A short talk on the Chassidic approach to parenting and the attitude and mind-set a parent should adopt towards their child. This talk was delivered by renowned chassidic author and scholar, Rabbi Shais Taub at a Neshamos.org event "Advocating for Emotional Wellness" on November 17th 2019 in Brooklyn, NY.

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How to Be Here

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Toxic thinking, like fear and worry, can remove us from the here and now, causing us not to be present in our own lives. By learning to be G-d-conscious in each moment we are able to show up for each moment and to do so with courage and serenity.

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The Kabbalah of Joy

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The Jewish approach to happiness differs fundamentally from the way the world at large views it. Is happiness a goal or a means to a goal? Is happiness a right or an obligation?

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Stop Controlling & Start Loving

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Why did 24,000 students of Rabbi Akiva all perish? What is a "love martyr"? How do we stop trying to control others and start loving them for who they are?

Lessons in healthy, loving relationships from the author of the Zohar, Rabbi Shimon ben Yochai.

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Masculine and Feminine

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An appreciation of the spiritual roots of masculinity and femininity helps us to better understand the male-female dynamic as we know it. We ask how masculine and feminine paradigms are present in the higher realms and how they influence our relationships here in this world, particularly in marriage.

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The Three Gifts — A Marriage Parable

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What is the most important quality for a person to have in order to be successful in their marriage? How do we make ourselves receptive to blessings in our marriage and in life in general?

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