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Hosted by Max Gilbert · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 31 episodes
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Weekly reflection on how the ancient wisdom of the Torah portion connects to modern themes in parenting, business, and entrepreneurship.
Max Gilbert hosts Closer Than You Think, a kids show with 31 episodes published.
This week's parsha, Shoftim, bans every form of fortune-telling and then commands us to be tamim, which one commentator defines as someone whose insides match their outsides. It's a lesson about the compulsion to predict
This week's parsha, Re'eh, contains the commandment to tithe, and with it a famous promise that giving leads to wealth. But the Sages define wealth in a surprising way: one who is satisfied with their lot. That definitio
This week's parsha, Eikev, warns against believing "it is my strength and the might of my hand" that produced everything we have. That warning applies to more than wealth. As parents, we try to engineer our kids: sticker
This week's parsha contains the Shema, the most famous prayer in Judaism, and it makes a claim far more radical than "there is one God." It rejects the whole idea of dividing life into separate compartments, which means
This week's parsha, Matos-Massei, lists all forty-two places the Jewish people camped in the desert, and at every stop, even the miserable ones, they set up the full camp. It's a strange detail with a lot to say about ho
This week's parsha, Pinchas, opens on a man who acts decisively in a moment of total chaos, when everyone around him is frozen. It's a strange story to connect to parenting, but the link is the frozen moment itself. So m
This week's parsha, Pinchas, opens on a man who acts decisively in a moment of total chaos, when everyone around him is frozen. It's a strange story to connect to parenting, but the link is the frozen moment itself. So m
A reader asked me a question I couldn't shake: I get why secure attachment matters, but how do I actually build it with my kids, day to day? After a year of writing about presence and connection, I had to admit the hones
A reader asked me a question I couldn't shake: I get why secure attachment matters, but how do I actually build it with my kids, day to day? After a year of writing about presence and connection, I had to admit the hones
My almost-four-year-old hit me with "that's not fair" for the first time this week, over having to nap while his baby brother stayed up. My instinct was to litigate it, to prove the ledger actually balanced in his favor.
We've gotten alarmingly comfortable slapping diagnoses on our kids: ADD, anxiety, defiance, you name it, often for behavior that's just a child being a child inside a system that sets them up to struggle. This week I mak
There's a reason your kid's whining can undo you faster than almost any other sound: it's built to. Whining is wired to bypass your reasoning and grab you before you can think, the same channel that lets a real cry reach
This week I'm ranting a little (lovingly) about our obsession with finding "the thing" that will fix everything: the supplement, the protocol, the branded parenting hack, the latest biohack. My wife's mahjong group hoste
This week I explore why commitment, not analysis, is the key to a fuller life. Research shows that people who endlessly optimize their choices are measurably less happy than those who commit and move on. The same pattern
This week I'm exploring why so many driven, successful people struggle to feel wonder at ordinary life, and what that has to do with our inability to rest. The same part of us that can't stop working is often protecting
Why can't driven, purpose-oriented men stop working? This week's essay redefines "flow" through the lens of parsha Emor, Victor Wooten's The Music Lesson, and Jewish mystical teachings about the sacred role of silence an
You already know screens are bad for you. So why hasn't that changed anything? This week I argue that avoiding the bad doesn't sustain transformation; you need a vivid sense of what you're building towards. The Torah cal
This week I'm writing about why I started graduate school in Marriage and Family Therapy, and what this week's Torah portion, Tazria-Metzora, teaches about what's really going on when family life feels chaotic. The parsh
What if the hardest thing about Passover isn't the cleaning or the dietary restrictions, but the radical idea that you didn't earn any of it? In this week's essay, I explore how Dayenu, the song everyone sings but nobody
Every dad in my groups says the same thing: I know what I should do, I just can't do it. This week I explore why, through an unexpected collision between modern parts-based psychology and what Chassidic philosophy has be
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Closer Than You Think is hosted by Max Gilbert. The show is categorised under kids (family) and has published 31 episodes.
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