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At age 16, I became a Baal Teshuvah (over 29 years ago!) and later went to the Lubavitch seminary in Israel where I studied in Kfar Chabad and in Jerusalem at Yeshivat Torat Emet located in the Old City. I later went to the Lubavitcher Seminary at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn New York. After receiving my semicha in 1976, I later went on to the Kollel where I studied for Yadin Yadin and eventually received my Yadin Yadin semicha in 1978. Although I do not consider myself any man's "Hasid," I still have a fondness for the Hasidic tradition and the Kabbala which I critically examine in light of the ideas of Plato, Plotinus, Augustine, Tillich, Freud, Jung, the Vedanta and the New Physics.