the conjunction of the Jew to the light of Ein Sof, a monopsychic state that summons the eradication of ontic difference, biṭṭul ha-yesh, a blurring of the boundary between finite and infinite.91

Despite centuries of persecution, Jews have somehow managed to continue the conversation that allows that ancient revelation

God loves diversity; He does not ask us all to serve Him in the same way. To each people He has set a challenge, and with the Jewish people He made a covenant, knowing that it takes time, centuries, millennia, to overcome the conflicts and injustices of the human situation, and that therefore each generation must hand on its ideals to the next, so

the talmudic dictum that one must get so inebriated on Purim that it is no longer possible to discern the difference between “cursed is Haman” and “blessed is Mordecai.”49 Just as the consumption of wine on the physical plane brings about the nullification of the senses (biṭṭul ha-ḥushim), so, in the spiritual plane, the disclosure of secrets can l