Jewish Kabbalah teaches us that with many profane and evil things, there is encased within them something good and holy, like a fruit in its shell. In order to consume the fruit that lies beneath, one must first go through its shell. The greater the good thing is, the greater the evil shell that can surround it and feed off of it. The coming of the Messiah and the arrival of the Messianic Age, among the greatest goods planned for us by G-d, has been accompanied by the greatest evils imaginable. In this book, we will try to get at the ‘fruit of the Messiah,’ first by going through its shell...