take Papa Don’t Preach, and mix it with madonna’s gorgeous version of Like a Prayer, religious references scattered through the non-stop dance party are arty and mildly provocative. She briefly dons a “Kabbalists do it better” T-shirt and wears the mystic sect’s Red String around her left wrist, but otherwise avoids sermonizing, except to wholeheartedly fulfill Kabbalah’s dogma of positive energy.

“I’m giving my all,” Madonna proclaims.