Torah Studies 5778 - 19 - Purim (Woodstock: The Real Story) by The Torah Center ATL published on 2023-01-30T18:36:27Z Woodstock: The Real Story What We Can Learn from the Hippie Movement Remember the hippie counterculture, when droves of young Americans rejected the sensible path of their parents? What caused that sort of mayhem? The Purim story teaches that what may have looked like a wild, senseless party was, in fact, a symptom of a longing for meaning. Sometimes, real growth only comes through rejecting the “establishment.”