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.
- Eikev- Gratitude-Shabbat ShalomThis Shabbat Parshat Eikev gives us many things to contemplate. Foremost is gratitude. v’achalta v’savata u’veirachta: you shall eat and be satisfied and bless. […]
- Parshat Eikev — “My Power and the Might of My Hand”Every success we’ve ever had, we tell ourselves we earned outright. Ourselves alone. Our sweat, our sleepless nights, our nerve. It is almost never […]
- Shabbat ShalomVa’etchanan gives us the Shema — the prayer we say morning and night, the prayer on our lips at life’s last moment. Simon & […]
- What story do we tell ourselves? Parsha V’etchananWhat story do we tell ourselves? Our memory of events often differs from what actually happened. The deviation from the facts is not due […]