Why Is Your Family Important to Hashem?

"AND HE MADE THE LAVER OF COPPER AND ITS FOOT OF COPPER, FROM THE MIRRORS OF (THE WOMEN)" (Shemos 38:8). We are taught here that just as the laver is essential as preparation for the service of Hashem, so also (and even more fundamentally) is the institution of marriage and of begetting children and rearing them to adulthood a most essential preparation for Hashem’s service. Actually, marriage and children are in themselves the major forms of service to Hashem. — A Nation Is Born