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Navigating Life as a Single Parent

How Do I Explain to My Child Why His Father Is Absent?

1 hr 16 min

Class Summary:

This zoom lecture by Rabbi YY Jacobson addressing single parents, arranged by the organization "My Extended Family" of Monsey and was followed by Q and A, on Monday night, 9:00pm EST, 2 Adar, 5781, February 15, 2021, live from Rabbi YY Jacobson's home in Monsey, NY.

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    Ysaroslav Gorlov -3 years ago

    Question for Rabbi YY

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  • SMB

    Single mother BT -3 years ago

    I am a baalas Teshuvanow keeping shabbos, kashrus and everything else. My children’s father is a goy, unfortunately. We have shared custody, so every other week and Shabbos the kids are by him. By him they eat treife meat every day, and he makes sure they have treife meat daily at school when they’re by him. Of course by him there’s no shabbos or Yom Tov or anything else. I understand that this is the outcome of my terrible mistake and my ignorance in my upbringing, not seeing anything wrong with being with a goy at the time...I am trying my best to educate my children in Jewish spirit and with Torah and mitzvos, but they are being pulled between two opposites. How do I deal with this and how can I educate my children to be proud Jews themselves and want themselves not to eat treif. To want themselves to keep shabbos etc.?Thanks a lot.

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    mayer franken -3 years ago

    With a wife who was mentally ill and refusing medication ,staying in bed all day ,never showering ,or changing etc after a mariiage of 21 years could not hold out anymore and after trying to work on getting her to get help which did not work with consultation of my rov and a few other rabonim and professionals ,i left ,took children with me ,they are all older from 13 years old till 22 years all boys ,two of them are happy that i left one of them couldnt care less (the oldest) and the two middel ones are fuming mad at me ,they ask me if i stayed for so long why leave now ,is there anything i can say or do ,to make them understand me ?

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  • Anonymous -3 years ago

    Hi

    How can I as a father properly understand my daughter and what she's going through and care for her, I sometimes feel like since I didn't grow up in the same situation that she will nebach grow up in so I can never really understand what she's going through...

    I understand that many people give advice to constantly just plain shower her with love, which I do, and she loves spending her time with me. But what MORE can I do, to properly understand and feel her and then give in return. Thanks.

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  • Anonymous -3 years ago

    How do I balance being in court with a vile attorney/seemingly biased judge and keeping the proper perspectives of bitachon 

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Lecture on Single Parenting with Q & A

Rabbi YY Jacobson

  • February 15, 2021
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  • 3 Adar 5781
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Dedicated by Ronel Cordova in honor of his mother, Sonia Cordova.

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