Rabbi Levinsky Sermon: January 23

Small acts of Kindness

There is something sacred about the way people learn to care for one another. For many, the culture around Bob Weir and the Grateful Dead became a school of kindness, where strangers greeted one another with hugs, said “I love you” without irony, and made room for each other on the dance floor and in the heart. Jewish tradition names this truth clearly. Ben Azzai teaches that the deepest principle of Torah is remembering that every human being is created in the image of God. Small acts of warmth are not small at all. They are how holiness becomes visible in the world. Shabbat Shalom.