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Rabbi Dan Levin
Rabbi Dan Levin
Rabbi Dan Levin serves as the senior rabbi of Temple Beth El, located in Boca Raton, FL, the congregation where he began his career in 1996. As the congregation’s leader, Rabbi Levin works to create a community where each member is inspired to lead a life of spiritual richness, meaning, purpose, and service. He seeks to build a congregation whose mission is to synthesize the innate questions and moral challenges of the world in which we live with the wisdom and power of centuries of Jewish tradition. It is this synthesis of tradition and the modern world that guides his teaching, worship, and pastoral care. Rabbi Levin believes that God is found in the intimacy of relationship, and seeks to build in the congregation a web of care, love, and oneness with each other, the community in which we live, and with the Jewish people here, in Israel, and throughout the world.
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Shabbat Message
Prayers for Israel: Shabbat Message from Rabbi Dan Levin
אִם־אֵלֵךְ בְּקֶרֶב צָרָה תְּחַיֵּנִי עַל אַף אֹיְבַי Though I walk among enemies, You preserve me in the face of my foes… Psalm 138:7 For too long, Israel has been forced to endure the menace of the maniacal fundamentalist Islamic regime in Iran. For decades, Iran has called for Israel’s destruction,
June 13, 2025
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One Law: Shabbat Message from Rabbi Dan Levin
Recently, leaders in the U.S. administration have questioned the need for due process for those accused of violating immigration law. Stephen Miller and others have even suggested that we suspend Habeas Corpus, denying due process to those who may be suspected of being in the United States illegally. America was founded
May 16, 2025
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The Banality of Evil: Shabbat Message from Rabbi Dan Levin
On April 17, 1961, Gideon Hausner stood to address the members of the court assembled in the Beit Ha’am auditorium in Jerusalem. “When I stand before you here, Judges of Israel, to lead the Prosecution of Adolf Eichmann,” he began, “I am not standing alone. With me are six million
April 25, 2025
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The Call From Within: Shabbat Message from Rabbi Dan Levin
Fifty-seven years ago today, shots rang out at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee, claiming the life of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. During King’s funeral, a tape recording was played in which King spoke of how he wanted to be remembered after his death: “I’d like somebody to
April 4, 2025
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Principle: Shabbat Message from Rabbi Dan Levin
The spiritual call to humanity is to instill our lives with a higher sense of meaning and purpose. We call this “principle.” Principles are the set of beliefs and standards we set above even life itself. They become the definition of “what we live for.” Morality is when we set
March 14, 2025
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You Shall Have No Other Gods…. Shabbat Message from Rabbi Dan Levin
In the beginning, the Holy One created swarms of every kind of creature, but just one human being. The Mishna suggests that “a single person was created to teach that anyone who destroys a single human life, is as if he destroyed an entire world; and anyone who saves a
February 14, 2025
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Compassionate Traffic: Shabbat Message from Rabbi Dan Levin
One of the first things you notice as an American arriving in Kathmandu is the traffic. Greater Kathmandu is home to more than 1.6 million people and traffic is everywhere. And throughout the city, and the rest of Nepal, there are virtually no traffic control devices. No traffic lights. No
December 20, 2024
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Come With Your Days: Shabbat Message from Rabbi Dan Levin
Last week, I had the agonizing privilege of visiting Kibbutz Nir Oz. It is impossible to look in any direction and not see the devastation. Shlomo Margalit, at 87 years old, knows this place better than the back of his hand. He should. He was among the founders of the
November 22, 2024
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Longing: Shabbat Message from Rabbi Dan Levin
I am craving Shabbat. I am yearning for its rest. I am longing for its peace. Like an engine running at full bore, our souls have been guzzling gallons of spiritual energy. And we’re tired. Our tank is running on empty. The red light is on. We need to fill
November 8, 2024
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Election Day Message from Rabbi Dan Levin
On This Election Day … In the Pirke Avot, Hillel teaches, “Do not separate yourself from the community.” America is a country founded on a dream – a dream defined by Thomas Jefferson’s immortal words: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they
November 5, 2024