I am currently working as Director of Pastoral Care Services for a small Jewish community. I also attend the ALEPH Rabbinic Seminary, studying to be a Mashpia/Spiritual Director and a Rabbinic Pastor. I am working on my final paper for a class in which we studied the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. His "ethics is first philosophy" sounds like some of what I read of Barack Obama's thoughts in his book Audacity of Hope. My paper is a conversation between the two of them.