What is the Jewish view on smacking children?
by Rabbi Moshe Miller addthis_pub = ‘rabbisimcha’; –> function gomprint(Hierarchy, ixObject){ var vwidth = 680; var vheight = 520; var url = ‘/en/article_print.html?h=’ + Hierarchy + ‘&o=’ + ixObject; window.open(url,’print’,’toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,menubar=no,status=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=no,width=’+vwidth+’,height=’+vheight+’,top=’+((window.screen.height/2)-(vheight/2))+’,left=’+((window.screen.width/2)-(vwidth/2))); } Library » Daily Life » Family Life | Subscribe | What is RSS? PRINT EMAIL COMMENT Different approaches have been used throughout the ages, depending on the culture and situation prevalent at the time. The following lines are some Torah guidelines for this sensitive subject: King Solomon, the wisest of men, wrote in Proverbs: “One who spares his rod hates his child, but he who loves him disciplines him in his youth” (Proverbs 13:24). The commentaries of our Jewish Sages illuminate this verse: A parent who does not punish his/her child [when this is w
