Still running off cassettes. Meanwhile, having bagels with Peretz while we discuss the duties and obligations of the Jewish male in contemporary society. Peretz feels that a return to careful Talmudic scholarship has been made more, not less, imperative by the death of God, while I have been making a case for a sort of purely secular post-Levinasian ethical perfectionism, which Peretz, lacking the concept of an other, disapproves of quite trenchantly. I'm sure another bagel will smooth things over between us- please let me know if there's anything I can do to help.