"Riding to the rescue of someone who doesn’t bother to do anything to rescue himself, we’re teaching our children every wrong lesson"

"That bond to a rav, a kehillah, a second home — it’s something worth sacrificing for"

"There are three sources responsible for creating a child — I wonder if Hashem is ever consulted when divorced parents make unilateral decisions for their children"

Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky: "To stick to one’s principles is indeed praiseworthy. But to know when to break them is gadlus!”

"Let’s be big people and not forget to put Hashem into our decision-making. Be as machmir as you want, but from a place of purity and kirvas Hashem, not from escape and fear"

Chances are, if people are getting hurt or there is machlokes, most chumras don’t apply, but navigating this issue requires daas Torah

"It’s the job of parents to make choices and we try to make the best choices because our children live with the consequences"

"I think it’s terribly unhealthy for them to get a message that they should be deprived or seen as misfits because their father is learning"

"This Double Take story only reinforces our society’s preoccupation with externalities and superficialities"