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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
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
Shabbat Message
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
Shabbat Message
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
Shabbat Message
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
Shabbat Message
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
Temple Beth El
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
Israel
October 7 Anniversary Message
“How is one to communicate that which by its very nature defies language?” asked Nobel Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel. “How is one to explain the inexplicable? And then, how can one be sure that the words, once uttered, will not betray, distort the message they bear?” The tsunami of evil
October 7, 2024
Israel
Congregational Message about Israel Rabbi Dan Levin
Collectively, we breathe a sigh of relief that today’s attack of hundreds of ballistic missiles by the Republic of Iran was thwarted by the State of Israel. Our hearts go out to all those in the State of Israel forced once again to run for cover from Iranian aggression. We express
October 1, 2024
Shabbat Message
Re-membering Responsibility: Shabbat Message by Rabbi Dan Levin
In just a few weeks, we will gather for Rosh HaShanah, the celebration of the New Year. The Torah calls Rosh HaShanah Yom HaZikaron – the “day of remembrances.” To honor the New Year, we are asked to remember – how we lived, what we accomplished, and how we chose
September 20, 2024
Shabbat Message
Listen … Love: Shabbat Message by Rabbi Dan Levin
Astronomers teach that the universe is more than 13 billion years old. They also teach that the earth is around 4.6 billion years old. Human beings emerged only 300,000 years ago, and the most primitive societies began just 12,000 years ago. Human civilization began only 6,000 years ago. Take a
August 16, 2024
