Growing up in apartheid South Africa, Rabbi Shlomo Levinwatched two buses climb the same hill on the same foggy morning - one new and half empty, the faces at its windows silent; the other overcrowded and falling apart, and alive with ninety voices singing in harmony. The question it raised has stayed with him for a lifetime: why wasn't it the other way around? A reflection on wealth, hardship, and where happiness actually comes from.

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It calls him by name, knows all about him, and even wisheshim a good Sabbath in Hebrew. Rabbi Shlomo Levin traces a decades-long relationship with his computer - from floppy disks to AI - and asks what remains missing. However well a machine simulates warmth, he argues, it cannot supply the thing we recognise instantly in another person and cannot quite define.

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A banana duct-taped to a gallery wall sold for $120,000 - until a man walked up and ate it, then calmly explained that he was an artist and this was a performance piece. Rabbi Shlomo Levin uses the story, alongside Aaron's account of the golden calf, to examine how quickly we reframe our own actions after the fact, and what that habit costs us.

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