Dovid Bashevkin | The Achdus Crisis We Pretend Doesn’t Exist
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🗓️ 12 July 2025
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
In this wide-ranging and deeply honest episode, Dovid Bashevkin unpacks one of the most pressing and overlooked issues in the Jewish world today: the fragmentation of the Orthodox community and the illusion of unity we like to project. With humor, vulnerability, and rare clarity, he explores why we’re lonelier than ever despite packed shuls and buzzing WhatsApp groups, how labels like “Modern Orthodox” and “Yeshivish” have shifted from ideological statements to institutional shorthand, and what it would actually take to foster real achdus, not just feel-good unity, but the kind that demands humility, discomfort, and real work.
Dovid doesn't just point to problems; he calls for a fundamental shift in how we build community, raise children, and see ourselves in relation to other Jews. He challenges the frum world to stop outsourcing spiritual leadership to secular institutions and to reclaim the responsibility of engaging with the entire Jewish people, across lines of observance, geography, and history. This conversation dives deep into questions of identity, leadership, and personal responsibility, offering a sobering yet hopeful vision for what Jewish life could look like if we stopped waiting for the shofar and started living like redemption is already possible.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, some quick trivia for you. Who has a milk of Kiddish in their house every single |
| 0:06.2 | Shabbas? Who finishes a book every Shabbas and tells the whole world about it? Yes, |
| 0:12.2 | that is my guest this week and that is David Bashafkin. This is an incredible conversation, |
| 0:18.2 | a conversation that is very applicable to this time of year. You know, Shavasra-Thomas, Sunday, which maybe you're listening on right now, or you're |
| 0:26.1 | during the three weeks, nine days, maybe it's Tishabov. |
| 0:28.5 | We talk about a lot of topics, one of them importantly being Achtus, Unity and Klai Israel. |
| 0:34.2 | Do we have Achtas, the ishivish Dman Orthodox, Satmar, Lubavich, Litfish, |
| 0:40.3 | Hasidish, so many different types of Jews. How can we come together? Maybe that's what we need. |
| 0:46.1 | We need to come together, right? Well, we discussed it in this episode. Plus, a lot more. Stay tuned for |
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