By Matt V.
Rabbi Dan Levin from the Beth El Temple in Florida came to talk to the students at Family Foundation School on Sunday, August 16. He spoke about love and how it could help all of the students here at FFS.
Rabbi Levin said he wanted to visit Pierce S. and try to help the students here at FFS. Pierce and his family have been attending Rabbi Levin’s services for many years. “The Twelve Step program works because it inspires people to feel beyond their immediate experience,” said Rabbi Levin.
“If life has a purpose and we see our connection to that purpose more clearly, we can live happier lives,” he said. Often through addiction and abuse, views on life and love become skewed and we lose connection with God and our purpose. Rabbi Levin spoke about how we can regain our connection with life’s purpose through loving one another.
“My parents were active in religion, but not extremely,” said the Rabbi. He has been part of the Jewish faith for twenty years, but he said he began to understand and get involved in Judaism while he was at college in Jerusalem.
“I think that Rabbi Dan came at a critical time for The Family School. I think that we could be loving each other more than we are. The way it used to be, people would be going to kids in the corner and Twelve Step with them. I feel that we have been sliding away from that for some time now,” said Zeke G., a student here at FFS.
If Rabbi Levin’s message is taken in, life at the school could move toward a higher place than ever imagined.
