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.
- This Is Not a Security Problem(This Essay was published in the Jewish Exponent on July 27, 2026 and reprinted here) Each time I enter the Weitzman National Museum of […]
- Shabbat ShalomWe are to tell our story as an act of gratitude. “Ki Tavo commands us to bring our first fruits and tell our story […]
- The Night They Rewrote the President’s HouseIn the middle of the night this past July, National Park Service crews removed the panels at the President’s House on Independence Mall and […]
- You’ve Made It- a message of Ki TavoYou’ve made it. I remember standing in a robe I’d never worn before, waiting for my name to be called at ordination and receive […]