The Moment Before

In this clip, Rabbi Marc examines the split-second moment before temptation towards “evil” occurs. He describes the experience as a palpable sense of lack which urgently needs to be filled, lest we remain painfully frozen in the face of our own non-existence. This “moment before the fall” is, in essence, a breakdown of Eros—another “refusal to touch”—and it is from this horrifying void at the center of our souls that all the evil in the world is born.