Sublime

Thus, the individual overcomes the isolation of the “I” and bonds with all living Jews. In the community, each generation overcomes the isolation of the “now” and links to the generations that have gone before and to those that will come after it. Because the goal of perfection cannot be achieved in one generation, the covenant is, of necessity, a

Jew who has fallen into poverty [by] giving him a present or a loan, entering into partnership with him, or finding him work so that his hand will be fortified and he will not have to ask others [for alms]. Concerning this, it is written (Vayikra 25:35): ‘You shall support him, the stranger, the resident, and he shall live among you.’ Implied is th

Elle constitue l’engagement solennel pris par l’État d’Israël envers la diaspora, cinq ans après la Shoah, de fournir à tout juif en détresse une planche de salut physique, un refuge

The excessive joviality is a ceremonial enactment of the philosophical principle of the coincidence of opposites, as Purim inhabits the place within the divine economy where the spiritual and material converge in the sameness of their divergence.