Jul 19, 2026 · 4 min · 3 segments
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…
Shlomo LevinHost
Patrick's upbringing in the USA was unstable, a sketchy family line, a lot of moving around in the army, and very tragically, he died during COVID.
But the lesson he taught me that night, and that I pass on to you, is how important rootedness and belonging is in all of our lives.
It sits in the substrata of our consciousness, but it is the rock upon which our sense of stability rests.
Each group in which we participate is a dimension of belonging that collectively contributes to the mosaic of our multi-dimensional lives.
Clubs, social groups, the pub, football teams, faith communities, even teenage gangs, all are driven by the human instinct to define our identities as part of a group or a tribe.
To know where one comes from, who one's ancestors are, the chain of values and teachings that are handed down in families from generation to generation.
and in our misplaced rush to create social equality and an identikit urban culture, we risk erasing this precious past, pretending to ourselves that as moderns this dimension is no longer relevant.
The result is an increasingly unstable, fractious society that has lost its way.
Patrick's upbringing in the USA was unstable, a sketchy family line, a lot of moving around in the army, and very tragically, he died during COVID.
But the lesson he taught me that night, and that I pass on to you, is how important rootedness and belonging is in all of our lives.
It sits in the substrata of our consciousness, but it is the rock upon which our sense of stability rests.
Each group in which we participate is a dimension of belonging that collectively contributes to the mosaic of our multi-dimensional lives.
Clubs, social groups, the pub, football teams, faith communities, even teenage gangs, all are driven by the human instinct to define our identities as part of a group or a tribe.
To know where one comes from, who one's ancestors are, the chain of values and teachings that are handed down in families from generation to generation.
and in our misplaced rush to create social equality and an identikit urban culture, we risk erasing this precious past, pretending to ourselves that as moderns this dimension is no longer relevant.
The result is an increasingly unstable, fractious society that has lost its way.
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