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.
- Both Boys Lived- A message from Rosh HaShanahBoth Boys Lived Nobody is sacrificed on either morning. We move past that faster than it deserves. The knife stops. The well appears. Both […]
- Shabbat Shalom – Parsha Nitzavim-VayelechAs we approach this Shabbat in Elul, we are reminded of everyone’s importance; we all stand in covenant, responsible. So Choose life. Debbi Friedman’s […]
- Parshat Nitzavim-Vayelech — How Do You Say GoodbyeHow do you say goodbye when you already know how the story ends? Moses has one day remaining. Since Nitzavim-Vayelech falls on the last […]
- Rashi and DiscernmentI have a wonderful dog. His name is Rashi (if you know, you know), and he holds his post on the sofa in my […]