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When a lorry sent to fill a pothole in Somerset fell straight into it, the scene became an impromptu tourist attraction. Rabbi Shlomo Levin wonders whether this comic own goal says something deeper about how we so often fall into the very potholes we set out to fix. 

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Alone in the sea off the Cape at 18, Rabbi Shlomo Levin saw a dorsal fin racing towards him. Moments

later, a dolphin surfaced beside him, smiling and ready to play. Prompted by David Attenborough's

100th birthday, he reflects on that encounter and on the wonder Sir David has shared with us for

decades. How do we find the wonders all around us? A reflection on looking, and on truly seeing.

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Growing up in apartheid South Africa, Rabbi Shlomo Levinwatched two buses climb the same hill on the same foggy morning - one new and half empty, the faces at its windows silent; the other overcrowded and falling apart, and alive with ninety voices singing in harmony. The question it raised has stayed with him for a lifetime: why wasn't it the other way around? A reflection on wealth, hardship, and where happiness actually comes from.

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It calls him by name, knows all about him, and even wisheshim a good Sabbath in Hebrew. Rabbi Shlomo Levin traces a decades-long relationship with his computer - from floppy disks to AI - and asks what remains missing. However well a machine simulates warmth, he argues, it cannot supply the thing we recognise instantly in another person and cannot quite define.

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A banana duct-taped to a gallery wall sold for $120,000 - until a man walked up and ate it, then calmly explained that he was an artist and this was a performance piece. Rabbi Shlomo Levin uses the story, alongside Aaron's account of the golden calf, to examine how quickly we reframe our own actions after the fact, and what that habit costs us.

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Why are we drawn to what we can't quite see? Rabbi ShlomoLevin reflects on a house he passes on his walks - almost entirely hidden behind trees, and far more intriguing than the grand homes standing fully exposed beside it. A meditation on dignity, on what we choose to hold back, and on why what is most precious about a person can never really be displayed.

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On a beautiful day in one of London's best parks, almosteveryone was staring at their phone instead of the view. Rabbi Shlomo Levin shares what happened when he spotted one man reading a book on a bench - a congregant observing the Jewish Sabbath's break from technology - and asks whether the rest of us need a Sabbath to reclaim the same thing.

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What happens when you ask children to rewrite the TenCommandments in their own words? Rabbi Shlomo Levin shares the hilarious and surprisingly profound answers from a Sunday school exercise - and connects them to Passover's Four Children, and what they teach us about parenting the child in front of you, not the one you hoped for.

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Does it take an immigrant to see what's great about your owncountry? Rabbi Shlomo Levin looks back on a 1997 fundraising dinner where aPrime Minister mid-election campaign praised Britain's protection of minorities— and the realisation that hit him later that night, drawn from his ownchildhood in apartheid South Africa.

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Rabbi Shlomo Levin reflects on a hard truth: some peoplehate him without ever knowing him, simply because he is Jewish. He traces the long history of antisemitism through to Britain today, and its cost to society - before ending with a message of hope: hate is learned, and it can be unlearned.

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