יום שלישי, ט״ו תמוז תשפ״וTuesday, June 30, 2026
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Dovid Bashevkin is the director of education for NCSY and the founder of 18forty. He is the Clinical Assistant Professor of Jewish Values at Yeshiva University and the author of several books. You can find more of his narishkeit on twitter @dbashideas.
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Every time my son pours grape juice I watch with trepidation. I've considered wearing a raincoat to the Shabbos table.
Life sometimes feels like being a blind person in a restaurant. It's going to be good, they say. It will be good, they insist.
The presence of absence provides that lingering connection. For example, wax from the havdalah candle, marks on the arm after you take off tefillin, wine stains just about everywhere on Pesach, and a crease in the backyard lawn from the Sukkah.
My margins are filled with sources, questions, translations and attempted insights. You would never find such doodles or notes inside a Sefer Torah.
This video highlighted something else. It was like an old couple, with decades of carpools and those daily pedestrian responsibilities of families, reading their first love letters. This video reminded us of that first love.
Why unpack that can of worms when it seems like the repository of our experiential faith has never been deeper and more sound?
I think that we have to follow the approach of the Tannaim and Amoraim. They followed the latest scientific developments of their time.
June 26, 2026 
