Reconceiving "The Fool"

I recently did a Tarot reading with Mark Horn that blew my mind. Mark interprets cards through a Kabbalah lens—fortunate, as I had some whammies, including The Tower and The Fool. I loved his interpretation of both, though. For The Fool, he told me a story about Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidism: He was walking in the Carpathian mountains, on a nar…