Just out of curiosity, I started recording a show on TLC called Shalom in the Home. It's hosted by modern orthodox Rabbi Shmuley Boteach who I formerly thought of as kind of a quack, rabbi to the stars (including Michael Jackson.)
Shalom in the Home is a reality show where families who are having significant problems (kids, remarriage, finances, etc.) call in Shmuley who works with the family in question for a week after having recorded their homelife to figure out what's going wrong. The Rabbi uses counseling sessions in his Airstream mobile home and group activities to try to bring the families back together. The thing that gets us is that the families are very real - these are not freaks or white trash. And the families are not all Jewish - in fact a recent episode had an adopted Jew who converted to Islam to marry his Turkish wife.
Shmuley has some beautiful words of wisdom that he doles out in the counseling sessions and in the breaks that really hit home. There's a list of "Shmuleyisms" on the show's website.
The greatest gift that a man can give his children is to love their mother. Conversely, the greatest gift that a mother can give her children is to love their father.
The man who has a woman who believes in him is impregnable and invincible. Nothing in life can hurt him because he has peace at this center.
A parent’s bedroom is not a family sitting room or family dormitory. Children should never sleep in their parents’ bedroom. If you need to hire a security guard to make your bedroom into Fort Knox, that is still better than allowing your role as parent to conflict with your role as lover to your spouse.
Boy, do we have to work on that last one. I now admire this man tremendously. He's a child of divorce who has eight children of his own who seems to have it all together.
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