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Rabbi Sharon Brous

Rabbi Sharon Brous

Unmasking Purim’s vital meaning

On Purim we are forced to confront the possibility that nothing we do really matters, because history is ultimately arbitrary, and life is therefore unalterably unpredictable. No wonder they tell us to have a couple of drinks … But the power of Purim is not that it leaves us in a drunken stupor, vulnerable, uncertain and hungover.

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