Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg is author of Nurture the Wow: Finding Spirituality in the Frustration, Boredom, Tears, Poop, Desperation, Wonder, and Radical Amazement of Parenting, from which this piece was excerpted, and rabbi-in-residence at Avodah.

Mother and preschool child on a couch; mother scolding and pointing her finger at the child

Rosh HaShanah

Returning to the People – and the Parents – We Want to Be

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

September 6, 2017

I don’t want to raise my children in a home with yelling. And yet, when I slip in a way that’s human and understandable, I fail both myself and my children.