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How Parenting Can Become a Spiritual Practice

By Danya Ruttenberg — 2017

This video is part of a series made possible by the Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah. What was your spiritual life like before you became a parent? Did it change when you became a parent? Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg argues that raising children can be its own form of spiritual practice. See more...

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