Unity or Death
An article in The Jerusalem Post:
My comment:
I think the solution is that we have to simplify our review of Jewish history, Judaism, and our Holidays based on this straightforward formula: “When we keep our original and unique national unity and mutual guarantee, we survive and succeed; when we forsake this unity and allow the instinctive “unfounded hatred” to separate and reject us from each other, we face terrible suffering and existential danger.”
We find the same motif in all the scripts of the Jewish Holidays; we see the same principle behind all our historical turning points.
This is what our sages talk about when they interpret our authentic sources, and the very foundation of our Nation is based on the above-mentioned “supernatural” — above and against the inherently self-serving, self-justifying, egotistic, and exploitative human nature — unity and mutual guarantee.
We need to adjust our dedication system and our social discourse so that we never forget the warning from the “Standing at Sinai:” “You either accept unity and exist as one man with one heart, or this will be your burial place.”
We do not have any excuses; we have nowhere to hide.
Unity — above all our diversity, argumentative nature, and differences of opinions — or death.
It cannot be any starker or simpler than this.