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Podcast: Jewish Ideas to Change the World
Episode: Getting to Mi Yode’a (Who Knows?): Moral Clarity in a Topsy-Turvy World
Description: A virtual event presentation by Rabbi Jonathan Spira-SavettAbout the Event: The Talmud proposes that on Purim we enter a state of mind in which we no longer know the difference between the goodness of Mordechai and the evil of Haman. At a key moment in the Megillah, when the fate of the Jews seems to lie in the balance, Mordechai proclaims to Esther not-so-emphatically “Who knows? Perhaps it’s for a time like that that you have arrived at royal power.” What might the Purim story, its midrashim, and the practices of Purim teach u...