The Christian theologian, Harvey Cox, characterizes the very survival skills developed by our Jewish people centuries ago when he writes:
“if he is to survive, man must be both innovative and adaptive. He must draw from the richest wealth of experience available to him and must not be bound to existing formulas for solving problems. Festivity, by breaking routine and opening us to the past, enlarges our experience and reduces our provincialism. Fantasy opens doors that merely empirical calculations ignore. it widens the possibility of innovation.”
Feast of Fools, Harvey Cox, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1969, page 12