Next week, we welcome Purim, a holiday that can feel… contradictory. On the surface, it is joy. Costumes. Celebration. Noise. Laughter. But beneath it lies one of the most unsettling stories in the Torah — a story of concealment, uncertainty, danger, and a salvation that unfolds only at the very last moment. The Book of Esther is the only book in the Torah where the name of the Creator does not appear.
Not once.