Jewish Relationships Initiative
The questions you carry are not new. The wisdom that answers them is timeless.
Judaism’s deepest teaching is not a doctrine. It is a relationship — with God, with one another, with the person you are still becoming. That is the work we do here, together.
Connect Deeply
Torah study, conversation, and encounter — the places where relationship actually happens.
Live Purposefully
The lifecycle moments that mark a life: weddings, namings, mourning, meaning.
Leave a Legacy
The Ethical Legacy Will — recording what you know, so it reaches the ones who come after.
Ways to enter the work
Learning
Weekly Torah, Introduction to Judaism, chevruta study, and the harder conversations between parents and grown children.
Life’s Moments
Weddings, baby namings, b’nai mitzvah, and the sorrows — meeting you where joy and grief actually live.
Ethical Legacy Will
Jewish wisdom reimagined: an ongoing cheshbon hanefesh that binds the generations.
Pastoral Care
Spiritual, emotional, existential — sometimes it helps to have someone to think it through with.
Writings
A weekly d’var Torah, the Shabbat Shalom series, and commentary on the moment we’re living in.
Community & Support
Sustain the work, bring Rabbi David to your community, and act on the causes we share.
“God’s miracle is not in the thunder and lightning, but in people sheltering others from the storm.”
Rabbi David Levin
From the writings
The living heart of this work — the newest first.
- Shabbat Shalom and G’mar Tov“Moses doesn’t end with a speech. He ends with a song. The Torah — the whole thing — ends in music. This Shabbat, so […]
- Selfless love on Yom KippurIn the Jewish tradition, a form of kindness is regarded as the most genuine, defined by its selflessness and the fact that it will […]
- Parshat Ha’azinu-Just a Thing Before I GoMoses knows this is his last day, and he does not ask for one hour alone. Ha’azinu opens with him addressing not his family, […]
- L’Shana Tova & Shabbat ShalomRosh HaShanah and Shabbat join tonight. Achot Ketanah, Little Sister, is a piyut that welcomes Rosh HaShanah. The piyyut is traditionally sung at Maariv […]