NAME: Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin
POSITION: Director of Education NCSY
MOTTO: Try to balance sensitivities and sensibilities
ROLE MODEL: My parents Dr. Michael and Joy Bashevkin
Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin has no address on his front door.
He welcomes me to his Teaneck home with a wide smile. “I wanted to see what a lamdan you were” he says in yeshivish sing-song “to see how long it would take you to find me without the address!”
We planned go out for coffee, but my wants to quickly show me the bookcase in his basement. It will only take a moment, he says, then we’ll go. But the titles and ideas raining down from the simple wooden shelves form a little pile of intellectual quicksand holding me captive. The coffee never happens.
