RabbiShlomoLevin

RabbiShlomoLevin

By Rabbi Shlomo Levin MBEReligion & SpiritualityJudaism
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RabbiShlomoLevin episodes

  • Indian Railway Station

    What if the secret to starting your day well has nothing todo with religion at all? Rabbi Shlomo Levin shares a story about a crowdedIndian railway station at dawn — and what it revealed about a habit the Westhas largely lost: taking a few quiet moments each morning to gain perspectivebefore the day takes over.

     

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    6 min
  • My Barber

    Can a Jew and a Muslim build a real relationship without ever discussing theology? Rabbi Shlomo Levin talks about his barber of over 20 years — a devout Muslim who prays five times a day and fasts through Ramadan — and what an easy, honest relationship across religious lines can teach us about healthy multiculturalism. 

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    5 min
  • Man Up

    Is the perfect man tough and dominant, or gentle and self-controlled? Rabbi Shlomo Levin looks at a 59-country study linking "manosphere" pressure to unhappiness, two classic Jewish jokes about the stereotypically unassertiveman, and what the Talmud says true strength actually looks like.


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    5 min
  • It's not fair

    A heart attack. An intensive care ward. And a widow's cry that never really faded.

    Rabbi Shlomo Levin reflects on the night that changed his life 25years ago, and what it means to live in a universe that doesn't run on fairness — not with despair, but by asking what to do next.


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    7 min
  • Patrick

    Patrick was a security guard, an ex-Marine, a gentle giant — and a man who once told Rabbi Shlomo Levin he didn't know who he was. In Episode 4, that quiet confession becomes a meditation on rootedness: why knowing where we come from is the rock our stability rests on, and what a culture risks losing when it forgets its roots.


    New episodes every week, usuallyunder 4 minutes.


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    5 min
  • The Far Side of the Moon

    What happens when every support system disappears at once? Rabbi Shlomo Levin connects the Artemis II astronauts' 40 minutes of silence behind the Moon, a mentor's method of leaving troubled teenagers alone in a forest overnight, and the biblical story of Jacob stripped of everything he relied on — and finds the same truth in all three: an inner scaffolding that remains even when the outer one falls away.

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    6 min
  • The Mansion

    A visit to a magnificent house turns into a lesson about the one thing that holds every relationship together: trust.

    Rabbi Shlomo Levin reflects on a private conversation with a man convinced his wife was having an affair, and what it reveals about betrayal, self-worth, and why even love can't survive without trust.

    Under 4 minutes, every week.

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    6 min
  • New Beginnings Are Harder

    Endings are hard. New beginnings are sometimes even harder. After 40 years as a senior rabbi and the recent loss of his son, Rabbi Shlomo Levin knows both kinds of ending.

    In this weekly series, he shares brief, honest reflections — under 4 minutes each — on the values that make life better.

    Not religious. Not political. Just a fresh perspective for anyone, whatever they believe.

    New episodes weekly.

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    4 min

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