Toward Shabbat: Naso
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- By Aaron Leven
My first trip to New York City was when I was 10 years old, back in 2001. As a family we walked all over town, ...
Former Rabbinic Fellow
Aaron Leven
Biography
Rabbi Aaron Leven is currently an associate rabbi at Nefesh in Los Angeles. He received his Bachelor’s degree from Emory University and his ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary.
Aaron served as a rabbinic fellow at BJ from 2021-2023. He previously was deeply involved in the Wilshire Boulevard Temple camps, and has participated in Avodah Jewish service corps, AJWS’s volunteer summer in Uganda, Nativ, Yeshivat Hadar’s yearlong fellowship, T’ruah’s Israel fellowship, and the New Israel Fund’s Froman Fellowship. He also served as a UJA graduate fellow, worked as the admissions intern for the JTS rabbinical school, and was the New York hub manager as well as rabbinic intern for OneTable. Aaron completed his clinical pastoral education at New York Presbyterian and Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles.
Articles Written by
Aaron Leven
Toward Shabbat: Shemini
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- By Aaron Leven
Without a doubt, Parashat Shemini includes one of the most heart-wrenching, devastating narratives of the Torah. In the midst of our learning about the process ...
Toward Shabbat: Terumah
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- By Aaron Leven
As the Israelites are in the early stages of their long journey through the desert, which we read in this week’s parashah, God gives the people ...
Toward Shabbat: Vayishlah
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- By Aaron Leven
Every month I’m fortunate to meet with a “spiritual director”—a practitioner who is trained to guide people through questions pertaining to their spiritual lives. No ...
Toward Shabbat: Lekh Lekha
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- By Aaron Leven
At one stage or another in our lives, we’ve all experienced the feeling of being stuck in a rut. We may look around at our ...