R' Adin Steinsaltz on Purim

R' Steinsaltz has formulated beautifully a fact that is essential to understanding antisemitism:

As anti-Semitism is irrational in essence, we may be able to defend ourselves against it, but we have no way of uprooting it. Jewish attempts in the last hundreds of years to resolve the problem using opposite means – extreme assimilation on the one hand, and the establishment of an independent state on the other hand – did not resolve the problem, but rather, merely changed or diverted it to other avenues.

His whole article on Purim and antisemitism can be found here. R' Steinsaltz teaches us that

Amalek’s seed is still in the world, and it flourishes even in our cosmopolitan and enlightened era.

We can fight Amalek by doing two things, both learned from Purim: We can fight, and we can laugh. We can even do both at the same time, because when we laugh we say "Jah controls everything, what are we worrying about?". This is the meaning of a lottery, a pur, because a lottery isn't random. It is divinely controlled, without any human interference. We submit to Jah's will. That too is why we drink- we acknowledge that no matter how rational we think ourselves to be, God is still running the show, so truly a drunk man is as sober as a sober man.
May this Purim make us all drunk with God, whether we are drunk with alchohol or not.