So we had this really interesting debate about unity in the regular Torah class I do.

We sought around in the different scriptures, and checked out a lot of interesting interpretations. Really interesting.

This is kind of my conclusion.

Unity comes for a combination of sacrifice from the perspective of both the people and the leaders.

We have to sacrifice our own ego, interest and immediate needs.

We have to.

It’s in human nature to argue and find opposing views on things. I mean, that is essentially what intelligence is. The critical debate.

However there is a limit to the critical debate, and that is deep personal animosity. Like, I have been persecuted for several decades now. Berufsverbot, censorship and so on. The greatest danger of that is bitterness and anger.

It’s ok to seek and be angry for a better cause, yet meaningless anger, revenge and so on is not ok.

I have witnessed the destructive corruption in our state, as it had no ethics. It’s so rotten.

Yet, this is something we need to something about. It’s not the person, it’s the system that has been corrupted.

So we need to fix it.

And the things I have been through is a symptom of a deeper malaise. THAT malaise is what we need to adress.

Sorry, I just have my head filled with some cases of atrocities done to some of our weakest citizens.

Yet, it’s the ability to see the man as something else than the system. To be a true Mensch one needs to SEE people with their flaws, and still understand that they are as much victims of a corrupted system as I am.

That human attitude is very important I think. Never to dehumanize anyone.

It’s often when we truly believe that our adversaries are evil, child eating monsters, that we sanctify actions that we wouldn’t normally do.

G-d bless the will to be better and more tolerant persons. Also to those we do not like.