When a home of a family with strong Jewish values, stable and healthy, the all of Jewish life whether in relationship to HaShem, our social life, and in education, it will be full of life, vibrant and filled with happiness.
When a home is emotionally weak, spirtually and morally, all else will soon mirror that weakness.
Our religious laws are a big part of family life and also in Jewish Religious codes, these codes cover every aspect of family life, from our appearances to our most intimate relationships
🔹️Respect for the integrity, and feelings of All members of the family as humanbeings.
🔹️To develope and maintain a peaceful and harmonious relationship with All members of the family ( Shalom bayis ).
🔹️To maintain a spiritual purity and a healthy attitude in marital relationship between husband and wife.
🔹️There must be recognition and acceptance of different roles of each member of the family.
Happiness of family life begins with having respect, acceptance, understanding, patience, warmth and education.
The central role of a Jewish home is a sactuary, where values children to grow, to florish, a place to feel safe and secure. Yiddishkeit is meant to be joy, pleasant and when we bring our children up.with these values, it will show.
The greatest gift we could give our children is a happy home.
The Torah gives us advice how we can put this into reality.
A home is at the heart of Judaism, it is where we connect with HaShem in our daily lives, where our bookcase is filled with Seforim, where we daven when not in Shul, learn Torah, and give Tzedakah before lighting the Shabbos candles, the seder with Pesach and the Sukkah, a dwelling place outside our home, celebrating eight days of the Chanukah and Shabbos Kodesh a day of rest, spiritual upliftment and to sanctify our home into a dwelling place for HaShem. Home is where we recite Tehillim, where we say most of the brachos.
🔹️Seforim
🔹️Mitzvos
🔹️Brachos
Now we turned our new house into a Jewish home, by affixing the Mezuzos unto the front doorpost and every doorpost in the house apart from the bathroom/restroom or affixing a mezuzah on a doorpost facing the bathroom.
🔹️Mezuzah
The Children's room (s ) can have their own bookcase filled with children's books of our history, and when they are older with Chumash, Siddur, Hagadah etc, and their own Tzedakah box. Personalize the books with their name, and to make the proud, hang the certificate of the Letter in the Children's Sefer Torah in their room. It is fun to let the children choose their own mezuzah for the doorpost of their room( s ), and hang a sign of Tzivos HaShem on their door or in their room makes it extra special.
🔹️Letter
Our house is so much more than just a comfortable and nicely decorated home, we dedicated our home to HaShem and mitzvos.
Chanukas Habayis the Jewish house warming ceremony is the seudah mitzvah which we enjoy with family and friends, but it is really about expressing our gratitude to HaShem for the blessings He gives us in our new home.