True unity requires a special education and social discourse

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readOct 7, 2024

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An article in The Jerusalem Post:

My comment:

I fully agree with the article. True unity starts with honest self-examination, looking at what I am ready to sacrifice in order to achieve unity.

This works from the level of the family to the level of the nation.

Moreover, we also have to remember and understand that true unity is not something instinctive or natural, specifically because it requires self-sacrifice and compromise above and against our inherently individualistic, self-serving, and self-justifying nature.

Such a hard and “supernatural” — above instinctive nature — compromise and mutual connection to others requires a special method, constant learning, and practicing so we do not fall back into the domain of our own egos.

This constant vigilance is missing, and this is why we unite at times of existential danger and start separating and infighting almost immediately after.

If we are not willing to revive and constantly use our own unique method of unity and mutual guarantee, our forefathers pledged to and started using it despite “camping around the Mount of Hatred,” then the instinctive “unfounded hatred” between us — driven by the selfish human ego — will constantly destroy us like it destroyed the Second Temple and also brought to us October 7th last year.

Either we are 100% controlled by our cancer-like egos, or we exist and behave above and against them using our own Jewish method of unity.

This is why we need special education and social discourse, through which we can rebuild and maintain “true unity.”

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Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.