Professor Donald N. Levine (June 16, 1931 - April 4, 2015), affectionately known to the greater Ethiopian community as Gash Liben Gebre Etyopiya, was a man I was graced to call my professor, and then also a mentor, and finally also a cherished father-friend. It is with immense gratitude and admiration that I offer these reflections on the kind of man and the quality of mind that I encountered in Gash Liben over the eight years that I studied and worked with him.
Gash Liben was a deeply spiritual man of remarkable depth and breadth of learning endlessly awed and drawn by the world in all of its multiplicity and mysterious unity.
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