Jewish unity is something we have to learn and practice against inherent human nature!
An article in The Jerusalem Post:
My comment:
I fully agree that our present and future depend on our unity that we have to achieve above and despite our diversity and argumentative nature.
In other words, we have to find a way of covering the instinctive “unfounded hatred” between us — that is the result of the 100% egocentric, self-serving, self-justifying, and exploitative human nature that drives each and every human being — with a special “brotherly love” that we have to learn, practice and sustain while our inherent nature constantly wants to pull us back under the control of the ego.
Uniting against our enemies is not enough. This is a unity that is temporary, fueled by hatred against others that we use to replace the hatred between us for a while.
As we can see, even during the war, the negative criticism and attempts to destabilize our Nation from within continued and are now strengthening.
Since true Jewish unity is against and above our instinctive nature, we need a much stronger motivation to build and keep it; we need a strong and unchanging common goal that does not depend on our actual states.
We also need assistance from unique “external or higher” forces (or natural developing forces) that can help us exist and act against our instincts.
The goal we can unite around is our collective obligatory purpose in the world, which is showing and teaching (through our positive example) humanity how to integrate and coexist above and against the human ego with the help of the Jewish method we received millennia ago.