We have a unique method we have to observe and keep!
An article in The Jerusalem Post:
My comment:
In the article:
“the Covenant of the Ark is not an end in itself, but is only so they [the Jewish people] will observe what is written within.”
This is indeed the problem. We are the People of the Book, and we keep carrying the Torah everywhere with us; religious and secular read the Torah probably daily, but we do not observe and keep what is written in it.
As Rabbi Akiva famously declared, “The great rule of the Torah is ‘Love your friend as yourself.’”
“Old Hillel” told the convert that the single most important teaching of the Torah is “Do not do the others what you yourself hate.”
As our greatest sages described again and again, the whole Torah is about recognizing the inherent “unfounded hatred” in us, accepting that through our instinctive attitude and behavior, we want to control, exploit, and destroy others, while the Torah also provides the remedy, the practical method for existing and behaving above and against our inherent nature in unity and mutual guarantee.
The Torah was not even given before our predecessors pledged to become a nation of “one man with one heart,” each committing to care only for the wellbeing and most optimal state of the others while completely forgetting about themselves.
Jews, Israel cannot succeed and survive without our own Jewish method, which we also have to show and teach to others.
Without it, we constantly face existential danger, and the wrath of others brought upon us by our own infighting and undermining each other.