Part III: Zeitgeists

Part the Third

 

Zeitgeists

 

Of all the gin joints, it’s the visitors suite of the maternity ward where the Rav unpacks his big spiel, the metaphysical history of the descent of humanity’s soul and its dark twin through the four worlds of Ike Luria's Kabbalah. The crossroads in this wild ride fall out in the years—1309, 1925 and 2009—in which The Blessing of the Sun intersects with The Festival of the Passover. Each year’s theme revealed in a barroom fracas. We clamber up the next rung in Ike’s ladder, in this telling, to the World of Creation, the realm from which the seeds of the future begin to seek their womb on