The Downside to Divisiveness - Conclusion

Certainly a person needs to protect himself from negative influences, but one also needs to distinguish between taking care not to be caught up in the excesses of modern culture on the one hand, and isolation from other Jews and lacking a feeling of connection to all Jews on the other.

Furthermore, the deficiencies of each stream exist as part of a divine plan to encourage all Jews to unite and connect with each other. If there is, unfortunately, little effort to untie Jewry and dissolve barriers, then God creates situations that will force us to unite.

Besides for the well known causes - outside pressures of kings who make Haman-like decrees, wars, international pressure - there are other pressures who effects are more subtle. They are the fact that any deficiency within one group is predicated upon its separation from others. The roots of the cure are found in the neighbor. This will create sufficient pressure to shatter the walls that divide, and to cause each person to connect to another, one group to its neighbor.

Through unity within Jewry all public ills will be cured. There is much more to write on this subject, but that is for another time. If you seek to understand the depths of reality, you will see that the issues we have raised here manifest themselves in countless ways.