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Purim is a fitting day for this to be published Kavka on Wolfson, 'The Duplicity of Philosophy's Shadow: Heidegger, Nazism, and the Jewish Other' [review]
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Kavka writes that "the claim that Heidegger is the twentieth-century Balaam--a prophet who “knows the knowledge of the Most High,”--implies" an endorsement of "the claim that God is amoral (beyond good and evil)"
In Al Kein Yud Gimmel the Rebbe argues that Haman (who is to Mordechai what Balaam was to Moses) likewise thought that ultimately God must transcend morality, the lottery he cast seeks to invoke the transcendence of God wherein "darkness is like light," thereby enabling genocide
On Purim we celebrate the fact that Haman was mistaken: "the miracle of Purim is that that even as God transcends the entire cosmic order, even in the place of the lottery ... Haman's fate is it by strung from a tree."
Today we celebrate the irrational belief that evil will ultimately be vanquished, that God is essentially good. That evil doer are ultimately preparing the gallows for their own hanging.
The reason why "darkness is like light" is that when darkness confronts the essence it is either oblitarated by light or transformed into light
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relatedly this explains why Esther invited Haman to feast with her twice:
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relatedly this explains why Esther invited Haman to feast with her twice:
