[2] After graduating from Davis Renov Stahler Yeshiva High School for Boys,[3] Bashevkin studied at Israel's Yeshivat Sha'alvim, later attending Ner Israel Rabbinical College in Baltimore, Maryland, where he earned his bachelor's degree in Talmudic Studies in 2006.
[1] After receiving his rabbinic ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary at Yeshiva University (YU), Bashevkin graduated with a master's degree in Polish Hasidut in 2010 from YU's Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, having studied with Yaakov Elman.
He currently teaches courses on public policy, religious crisis, and rabbinic thought at YU in the Isaac Breuer College of Hebraic Studies as well as the Sy Syms School of Business.
Past topics havenincluded Biblical criticism, the "off the derech" phenomenon, and Jewish mysticism, and guests interviewed have included Marc B. Shapiro, Joshua Berman, Shulem Deen, Kelsey Osgood, Ammiel Hirsch, and Gil Student.
[14] Many of Bashevkin's ideas draw extensively on the works of Zadok HaKohen Rabinowitz, a 19th-century Hasidic rabbi, especially the latter's thoughts on sin.