Danny Louis

There’s a well-known idea that floats around a lot of the popular chochmas hagoyim or self-improvement books: if you want…

It was a hot summer day when a man came to Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach zt’l. He had traveled across…

Rav Zev Leff once said that he has an issue with some methods used by some individuals involved in kiruv.…

Some friends I know closely were having quite a hard time with one of their children. Their son was anxious…

I don’t know much about the Nurtured Heart Approach, or NHA, but here’s the basic idea: it’s a parenting model…

I don’t know much about the Nurtured Heart Approach, or NHA, but here’s the basic idea: it’s a parenting model…

We tend to think of Tisha B’Av as a day for our own grief. After all, it was our loss;…

A friend of mine, who we’ll call Yehoshua, was standing in the cereal aisle recently, one kid on each side,…

Someone once asked a certain leading talmid chochom, “How do I get nachas from my children?” His answer was, “When…

We were Shabbos guests at the home of some friends. Their three-year-old was buddies with ours, and it was nice…

I have a friend who is a “real-deal” avreich. He loves learning, and he takes it seriously.  Whatever time he…

About a thousand years ago, Rabbeinu Bachya ibn Paquda sat down to write a book. He had noticed something that…

Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky once visited a school and noticed that the mezuzah on the doorpost was unusually low. Halacha mandates…

Rav Yitzchok Dovid Grossman once tried to find a suitable yeshiva for a troubled teenager. He found one, but the…

The B’nei Yissoschar has an amazing piece, Maamarei Chodesh Iyar, Maamar 3.  The calibre of his chiddushim there is such…

The story of Yetzias Mitzrayim is not just the story of how our nation was freed from slavery — it’s…

Israelis have an expression: “b’rosh gadol.” Literally, “with a big head.” It’s what you say about someone who makes a…

In Hebrew, there’s a saying: “Ein yeled ra; rak yeled she’ra lo.” Loosely translated: There’s no such thing as a…

Have you ever seen a 4-year-old try to tie his shoes? It takes forever. Fumbling, concentration, starting over. The tongue…

We’ve all probably heard the observation that Hashem’s name does not appear in Megillas Esther. Pardon me, but that’s not…

I once heard a Rav talk about a certain 17-year-old girl he knew who was being turned down by every…

We’ve been writing this little column for too long without quoting the Chovas HaTalmidim. Time to fix that. The Chovas…

The Chazon Ish once saw a father yelling at his son for talking during davening. After davening, the Chazon Ish…

It’s several months until Yom Kippur, so I figured we should start talking about teshuva.  Have you ever met someone…