The Question We’re Not Asking Our Kids: Rabbi Yossi Bensoussan

Behind the Bima

Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

Josh Broide, Efrem Goldberg, Rabbi, Judaism, Philip Moskowitz, Education, Jewish, Bima, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 579 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Rabbi Yossi Bensoussan goes Behind the Bima for a deeply honest conversation about parenting, teenagers, shame, emotional safety, addiction, and why so many kids today feel overwhelmed. Drawing from years of crisis intervention and working with struggling families, Rabbi Bensoussan explores what children are really asking when they push people away, and what parents often miss beneath the surface.

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0:00.0	From Bokoritsome, Florida, this is Behind the Bima.
0:03.0	On this episode, the Rabbis are joined by Rabbi Yossi Bensushan,
0:06.0	whose work has put him on the front lines of addiction, family breakdown, and the emotional struggles facing today's teenagers.
0:12.0	In this conversation, Rabbi Bichushan challenges the way parents and communities think about vulnerability,
0:17.0	expectations, discipline, and connection.
0:20.0	Rabbi Bichushan explains why so many teenagers are terrified of disappointing the people they love,
0:24.6	how emotional pain often disguises itself as defiance,
0:27.8	and why relationships can't survive as purely transactional.
0:31.3	All this and more, Behind the Bima.
0:34.3	This season of Behind the Bima is sponsored by Julie Charleston and Dary Benjamin in honor of their grandparents, Morton and Malvina Charleston, and their children, Ruby and Macabi Benjamin.
0:43.9	Welcome back Behind the Bima. We had a great conversation with Rabbi Yossi Ben Shushan, who is not only entertaining people know him as a great speaker, but he's actually a deep thinker.
0:55.0	Yeah, on issues of parenting and the like, and we'll get to that momentarily.
0:58.3	First shot by Moskowitz. What's new?
1:01.1	We had an intense week together, didn't we?
1:03.0	We did have an intense week. Not intense like God forbid tragic or said or rabbinic in the classic
1:08.8	Rebic. Yeah. Why was it that intense we had our EOS integrator here
1:15.3	with us this week as we do our two-day annual see Schwartz let's give my name implementer
1:20.7	implementer sorry not integrator we have adopted EOS entrepreneurial operating system as a way of
1:27.4	operating here at BRS and I say adopted mean, we are in the adopting process. We are on journey. We received a failing grade in our one year grading system. But it was really eye-opening, and part of the beauty of it is that it puts a mirror to you and things that you might say about how we're doing and how we can be doing.
1:47.0	He really puts it up to you and says, are you really accomplishing what you... Should we share what we did that I found so powerful?
1:50.5	Powerful. You look like you were having a colonoscopy.
1:54.2	At least then you get to be asleep.
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