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Let's start with a joke: a wealthy Jew buys himself a private island and builds in it to synagogues. When asked for the logic behind it, he replied: one synagogue to pray and one not to go to…
The Torah tells us that when the Jews arrived at Mount Sinai, they dwelled there in peace as one man and one soul.
It's already been more then forty days since they left Egypt, forty days of spiritual elevation and preparation, for the day that G-d would reveal himself on Mount Sinai.
What took the Jews forty days to realize that the main preparation for the giving of the Torah is to peace?
Well let's look at these people as a typical Jewish community. (After all weren't they the first Jewish community in history – albeit a wondering community…). As the saying – "two Jews with three opinions". It's just in our blood.
And not always is argument negative, each of us has our own approach in serving g-d, in doing our heavenly mission in this world. That's OK.
But when it comes time to receive the Torah we have to look for what we have in common, what we all believe in.
That's the key to peace, to find what we have in common and not in where we disagree.