Rabbi David Bashevkin discusses Jewish thought and spiritual homelessness.
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What I'm really trying to tell people is that everyone ultimately is hashkafically homeless. It reminds me of one of my favorite essays that I've ever read in my entire life by David Foster Wallace called Laughing with Kafka. And the essay is about what it was like teaching the philosophy of Kafka to college students. And he said it was a disaster. It did not work. Why? College students do not want to learn Kafka. Why? Because Kafka is a type of humor that doesn't have a punchline. And he
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