There are forty-nine gates of human understanding. The fiftieth gate is entirely beyond any living being. It is so high that, looking down from there, all things are equally nothing. There is no good, no evil, nothing can be added or taken away, the righteous are dust, the wicked are dust, nothing is of consequence, all is but dust. That is why Haman erected a gallows fifty cubits high upon which to hang Mordechai. To say: G-d does not care. He is beyond all these things. There is no good or evil, it is all a fiction of the petty human mind. Drunk with the joy of Purim, a Jew soars higher and yet higher until he reaches that gate. Upon...