Etan Epstein: New Journeys in Torah Learning

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school year, uh you could be talking about January 1st. One of the beauties of rashish shana and the actual beginning of the year is the ability to kind of come back to our actual beginning to take stock so to speak of like where are we as our lives unfold. Is there an origin? Is there a initial purpose that should be animating our lives? And rash shana is the time that we're able to go back and find that beginning kernel of purpose that we then actualize throughout our lives. And today's episode, I think, is a fascinating exploration into those beginnings. I have a very dear friend that I have known for well over 20 years who will be talking to today whose name is Eton Epstein. Eton Epstein happened to have been my roommate in Yeshiva. That is not why I had him on, though. We could do a separate episode about what that was like. Uh I uh I was a terrible roommate in Yeshiva, and I should probably be more upfront about that. I should probably actually apologize properly and formally for anybody who had to be my roommate in Yeshiva. But Eton, who was my roommate in Yeshiva, went through his own transformation of sorts. He came in as a boy who just graduated from Ramas, like the flagship modern Orthodox high school. Uh, and by the end of his time in Saliv where we were studying in Israel, uh, he had plans that he wanted to go to the most

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