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Mike McRaith is a junior majoring in philosophy.  He wrote this essay for Professor Paradise's Judaism

class.  It was edited and revised in my Writing and Research in Religious Studies class.  In the essay,

McRaith draws parallels between Jewish mysticism and Zen Buddhism in an attempt to show the evolv 

ing nature of Judaism.

James Brummer

Professor of Philosophy

I hoped to escape from becoming one of the millions of lost, unnoticed and unidentified people scur 

If it Ain't Irony it Ain't Much: Reflections on the Parallels Between Hasidism and Zen Buddhism     Mike McRaith

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