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Leon Kass: The Taming of the Shrewd S1 E23

Meditations with Zohar

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I Feel Bad for Asaf, Don't You Have a Blessing for Me?

I feel bad for Asaf. I know that's not always such a traditional perspective, but it feels like you could definitely hold Asaf to account and say he should have had a longer time horizon. There's another way in which you can kind of see the failure of Asaf to develop beyond the brute as a function of his father's rewarding, rewarding of him for that. So, I mean, obviously at some point, Asaf has to become self responsible. But I don't know, do you have a thought on sort of the text point of view on Asaf?

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