Dark Matters of the Soul
The Kabbalah of Shame.

There are moments in time that are nearly transparent. The veil lifts and behold, real people with real lives are suddenly part of a holy drama that conveys the most sublime and eternal truths through the mundane facts of their unsuspecting lives. Esther's tale is a masterpiece in this regard. Stick a pin through any page and secrets spill out on the other side. Always at moments of cosmic shift someone must rise to the tip of this world, reach up through the heavens and pull the lights down. Esther was called to perform this feat. At Sinai there was a pyramid of ascent. The people stood below... the seventy elders a bit higher... Aharon and Joshua higher still. Yet Moses, alone, went up through the clouds to the peak, to the King. And so now, the time had arrived to pull the Oral Torah down into the hearts of the people and Esther was the chosen one.