Child-Raising

In general, the Rebbe did not approve of hitting children. He once saw one of his followers slap his son and exclaimed, as if in surprise, “A kindt shlugt men . . . Does one strike a child?”
(Bi’ur ha-Likkutim, cited in Si’ach Sarfey Kodesh I, 489; cf. Avanehah Barzel, pp. 49-50, para. 4)