PURIM

An Inebriated Relationship

This is the secret of Megillat Esther: a story with no open miracle, yet entirely one great miracle. The long introductions and seemingly incidental details are themselves the revelation of providence. That is why Hallel is not recited on Purim — because the Hallel is the Megillah itself, the act of tracing the chain of events that reveals how, even outside the Land and within the garments of nature, everything is irected with exact precision.

This is how one fulfills “ad delo yada”: by stripping away the illusion of nature and perceiving the guiding Hand behind it.