“Shema Yisrael” is an empty prayer without our unity!
An article in The Jerusalem Post:
My comment:
Yes, “Shema Yisrael” symbolizes the Jewish Nation.
The full prayer states that we should even sacrifice our lives rather than desecrate the singular unity and uniqueness of G_d.
But what is less known and even less kept is that holding onto the singular unity of reality’s single governing force is possible only as long as the Jewish Nation itself remains singular, a Nation of “one man with one heart.”
Our whole history, from its inception, stands and depends on our national unity and the mutual guarantee our predecessors pledged to at Mount Sinai.
All our national catastrophes — including this latest one — were caused by Jews abandoning their “oneness” and succumbing to the constantly awakening instinctive “baseless hate,” which is our inherently self-serving, self-justifying, subjective, and individualistic nature inciting us against one another.
Saying the “Shema” without holding onto our unity is as pointless as saying “Never Again!” while we constantly infight and undermine each other.
Without our undisputed and “supernatural” — above instinctive nature — unity, we have no connection to G_D, and we cannot harness the positive, constructive, and protective force we can draw on ourselves when we remain together “as one man with one heart.”
Without our consciously and proactively sustained unity we remain “soulless” and powerless, easy prey to our multiple enemies and fake allies.
When we abandon our unity we literally endanger and throw away our lives!