Bar & Bat Mitzvah · Parent Speech Guide · Deuteronomy

The Parent Speech for Parashat Ki Teitzei

If your child is reading Ki Teitzei, the speech you give that morning shouldn't be a book report on the portion — it should be about them, with the parsha giving your words weight. Ki Teitzei hands a parent three honest ways in: kindness in small laws, you can't look away, dignity for everyone.

What happens in Parashat Ki Teitzei

More commandments than any other parsha — dozens of laws about everyday decency.

1. Kindness in small laws

Returning lost property, helping load a fallen donkey, sending away the mother bird — decency legislated down to the details.

The story to findWhat small decencies define your child — returning things, helping without being asked, the little stuff done right?

2. You can't look away

'You shall not hide yourself' — lo tuchal l'hitalem — when someone's loss or burden is in front of you, ignoring it isn't an option.

The story to findWhen has your child stepped in when they could have looked away?

3. Dignity for everyone

Workers paid on time, dignity preserved even for debtors and captives — the parsha protects people at their most vulnerable.

The story to findHow does your child treat people who can do nothing for them — service workers, younger kids, the overlooked?

How a real parent speech comes together

The speeches that make a room go quiet aren't essays about the parsha — they're two or three true stories about your kid, with one Torah moment placed where it lands hardest. Pick the single theme above that made you think of a specific dinner-table moment, answer its question honestly, and resist the urge to attach a moral to every story. End with a blessing in your own words — that's the part everyone remembers.

Nachas writes it with you.

A ten-minute interview about your child, and you get a speech plan that pairs their real stories with Ki Teitzei — then three complete drafts in different voices, for every speaker in the family.

Start with Ki Teitzei — see your speech plan

The interview and speech plan are free. No signup.