Jewish Unity

Parshat Ki Tetze
"The portion ends with a command to eradicate the name of Amalek. If you read the few verses you will notice that they are all written in the singular. ZACHOR, “remember”, ASA LECHA, “he did to you”, ASHER KARCHA, “he came upon you”, VAYEZANEV BECHA, “those of you who were at the end”. (Deut. 25,17-18) If you continue reading you will notice the entire passage is addressed to the individual. Why is this so?

It seems that the message here is that Amalek tried to attack individual Jews. He knew he could not defeat the Israelites collectively as one nation. He hoped to be able to destroy them individually, one Jew at a time. In that way he would nibble away at the structure of the Jewish people and thus annihilate them. There is a great truth involved here. When the Jews are united and stick together, they are strong and can survive any onslaught. When they act as individuals they are weak and can be destroyed one at a time. We find that assimilation today is eating away at the structure of the Jewish people one at a time. For the Jewish people to survive we must reverse the trend and start realizing that the only way we can survive is to stick together and adhere to our Jewish way of life."
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הִנֵּה מַה טוֹב וּמַה נָּעִים שֶׁבֶת אָחִים גַּם יַחַד
Hine ma tov u’manayim
Shevet akh-im gam ya-khad
"How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in harmony."