Rabbi Taub: “Don’t Sign Up for My Parenting Course Until You Ask Someone Who Took It”

As registration opens for what may be the final live cohort of the Soul Parenting online course, Rabbi Shais Taub encourages parents to ask past participants whether the course actually created lasting change.

Before signing up for his upcoming Soul Parenting course, Rabbi Shais Taub wants parents to do their research.

“Please ask someone who has taken it,” he says. “Ask what it did for them and their family. But don’t just ask whether they enjoyed the classes. Ask whether something changed and whether that change lasted.”

More than 2,000 mothers and fathers have participated in Soul Parenting since its beginnings in 2020. For Rabbi Taub, the most meaningful measure of the course is what participants experience long after the six weeks have ended.

“The real test is not how inspired you feel when a class finishes,” he says. “Find someone who took the course the last time I offered it, a year ago. Are they still seeing results? Ask someone who took it five years ago. Did the changes stand the test of time?

Soul Parenting began during the lockdown in the spring of 2020, when Rabbi Taub partnered with Friendship Circle International to lead small groups of parents over Zoom. One group followed another, and the experience gradually developed into the full six-week program that has since reached families around the world.

The course offers an entirely Torah-based approach to developing greater clarity, confidence, and intuition as a parent. Its six lessons explore the parent’s identity, the child’s identity, values, bonding, giving space, and effective discipline.

Rather than focusing on tips and tricks for managing particular behaviors, Soul Parenting helps participants internalize spiritual principles that shape how they understand their children and respond to them. The goal is to deepen love and connection in the home, creating a stronger foundation for parental guidance.

Because the principles apply across ages and stages, participants have included parents whose oldest children were still in diapers and parents whose youngest children were already married adults.

Rabbi Taub used to offer Soul Parenting three times a year, then twice a year. He has not taught the course in a year, and the upcoming fall cohort may be his final offering in its original live format.

“Each cohort means teaching live twice a week for six weeks,” Rabbi Taub explains. “Yes, twice, because there are separate sessions for men and women. I’m there teaching, answering questions, and interacting with the participants.”

As Taub’s SoulWords organization continues to grow, the demands on his schedule have made that commitment increasingly difficult to sustain.

A professionally produced, prerecorded version is now in development to make the course available to more parents without depending on Rabbi Taub’s availability to teach each cohort live.
“I’m not trying to create FOMO,” he says. “But I want people to understand that if you have been waiting to take the course with me live, I don’t know when or whether there will be another opportunity.”

The course includes six live, interactive classes, weekly student guides, guided meditations, and a private online forum moderated by Rabbi Taub. Class recordings will be available for the duration of the six-week course.

The men’s track meets on Mondays, October 26–November 30. The women’s track meets on Tuesdays, October 27–December 1. Both tracks run from 8:30–10:00 PM Eastern.

Tuition is $650 per participant, with a discounted rate of $390 for a spouse. After registering, participants receive an email with a coupon for their spouse’s registration.
For more information and registration, visit SoulWords.org/Parenting. Questions may be directed to info@soulwords.org.

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