"A person is obligated to get drunk on Purim until he cannot tell the difference between
‘blessed is Mordecai’ and ‘cursed is Haman’.” Purim is upon us. The wicked Haman convinces the clownish King
Ahasuerus to kill all the Jews by executive order, but Queen Esther prevails upon the King to rescind this
dictate and Haman is hanged.
Day after day, our current reality reads like a story concocted for Purim. We see a carnival of populist buffoonery in which reality is indistinguishable from satire. Professional comedians, who straddle the line between reality and fiction, feel like the politicians are trespassing, usurping their turf.
