Growing Up as a Rabbi’s Child: Part 1 - R' Shmuel Hain

What this episode covers

In this season premiere, we begin a 3 part series exploring the rabbi and rabbinic family through the eyes of the rabbi’s children and how we can reflect on our own positions of avodas hakodesh and family dynamics as we approach Elul and the Yamim Noraim. In this first episode, we speak to the son of a rabbi, who himself went into rabbunus and has served as rabbi several decades. To what extent did his father being a rabbi, and his experience as a rabbi’s child, impact his decision to go into avodas hakodesh? Did he feel he had to live a higher standard in how he acted to keep up "the rabbi's son" reputation? Did he ever feel jealous that his father was busy tending to the shul and congregants? In what ways did his father give him a shlichus in the shul? How has his own childhood as a rabbi’s child instructed the parenting of his own “rabbi’s children?”

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