tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post3417855135866162648..comments2023-09-11T17:58:13.764-04:00Comments on The Rebbetzin's Husband: Which would you rather [your child] be?The Rebbetzin's Husbandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14977193945074906534noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post-22198638926715657212010-11-14T22:21:04.184-05:002010-11-14T22:21:04.184-05:00ProfK-
I hear, thanks.
Shalom, Batya-
Note that t...ProfK-<br />I hear, thanks.<br /><br />Shalom, Batya-<br />Note that this is a machlokes in Berachos 31b.The Rebbetzin's Husbandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14977193945074906534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post-3950111146543718692010-11-13T22:38:53.305-05:002010-11-13T22:38:53.305-05:00Shalom Rosenfeld, that comment about Chana makes n...Shalom Rosenfeld, that comment about Chana makes no sense. She would not have been able to get him mentored by Eli the Priest if he had been a regular kid. There's nothing ordinary about Chana.Batyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09402874037427009327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post-34168996466760590542010-11-12T10:14:47.332-05:002010-11-12T10:14:47.332-05:00The Gemara has Chana davening for a son who will b...The Gemara has Chana davening for a son who will be "just a normal, fit-in kind of person, not too tall or too short, not too low-intelligence, not too high-intelligence."<br /> <br />Is the Gemara proposing that as a model? Or just a barren woman's desperate, unfiltered plea to fit in after feeling outside the mainstream all these years in a mother-oriented culture?Shalom Rosenfeldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7898782635470765614.post-84892287734128748692010-11-12T06:55:10.319-05:002010-11-12T06:55:10.319-05:00Not so much about balance for me but about my chil...Not so much about balance for me but about my child's ability to know that "To every thing there is a purpose, and a time to every purpose under heaven." If you add appropriate versus inappropriate to your list of possibilities, that's the one I would look at and choose "appropriate," being able to be/do/think what is needed in any given situation for the child's best interests at that moment.<br /><br />Shabbat ShalomProfKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17954446826821665314noreply@blogger.com