From Bocceretome, Florida, this is Behind the Bima. On this episode, the rabbis are joined by Rabbi Moshe Don Kestenbao, a rabbi and author whose work focuses on how values are absorbed by children watching the adults in their lives.

Drawing on his experience as an educator and the ideas explored in his seafar Olamamamam,

Rabbi Kestimam reflects on parenting, education, and the everyday choices that shape children

long before formal lessons ever do. All this and more, Behind the Bima. This season of Behind the Bima

is sponsored by Julie Charleston and Darrell Benjamin in honor of their grandparents, Morton and Malvina

Charleston, and their children, Ruby and Maccabi Benjamin. Welcome to the newest episode of Behind the Bima for those who are listening and can't see. I'm sitting next to two empty chairs because today the intro is brought to you by me, myself, and I. It's a she week. People are away and off. I'm happy for them.

And sometimes you have to be comfortable in your own skin.

A little has boated, it's a little alone time. And that's what we have here in the introduction to behind the beam. But the truth is, I'm grateful for it. Because it gives me a little bit of a chance to try to frame and set up this episode and this conversation. we had the great privilege and pleasure of having a conversation with my friend Rav Moshe Don Kestembaum, who is a seasoned Mechanek, author Olam Hamidos, just an incredible,

really special person who practices what he preaches, so much to learn from and so much to watch

and learn just by observing him. But in this conversation, which you'll see momentarily,

we talk a little bit about parenting and education today. We talk about where young people,

where children, kids are at, and where and how we approach them as adults, be they parents,

and be them rabbis, be their educators and teachers and Rebaeim. And in the conversation, maybe it seems I'm taking

a little bit of a opposite approach, a little bit of a devil's advocate, pushing back at him

on some of his approach. And that's because, sincerely I have some questions that I think we all

need to be asking and considering. Of course, I agree with him. And there's a reason that he's

resonating so much that he is so popular. And not only he, Waterbury, where he comes from Rabbi Kalish, we're going to have back in Boka in a short time from now, and please God, we'll have back on behind the Bima. There's a reason it resonates because young people want to feel heard and they want to feel seen and they want to feel validated. They want to feel equal.

They want to feel friends. They want to feel that they're able to find their own way and they're

not being dictated to. They're not being demanded. They're not being judged. They're not being

looked at or looked right through or talked down to. So they're living in a world where they're

struggling and suffering from that. And so the people who they feel, notice them, love them, talk to them, they resonate. And I think all of us have a lot to learn from that and about that to be better at that. Not only for young people, but in a certain degree, I think that's true for all of us. My question is this. And I turn to you, our faithful behind the Bima audience, and I guess

I challenge you with this question, because I'm thinking about it. I don't know and I don't have all

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