R. Avi Strausberg on Purim: Look to the World and Find God
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As someone who longs to feel God’s presence in my life in a clear and direct manner, I have always been struck by the fact that God is noticeably absent from Megillat Esther. In a story that is about the near demise and heroic salvation of the Jewish people, it is not God’s hand that is featured in this story as the saving force, but rather the human hands of Queen Esther and her uncle Mordechai.
What is Megillat Esther teaching us about living in a world in which, as in our own, God’s presence is unseen?
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