I Will Grant You Peace In The Land…

“If you go in the way of my statues… I will grant you peace in the land” (Vayikra 26:3-6). Parshas Bechukosai opens with this divine promise. The general principle of Torah is “Love your neighbor as yourself,” and as long as America has enshrined this tenet as its cornerstone – “All men are created equal” – there has been general peace, prosperity, and progress. Yet as the golden rule is challenged on University campuses across the country and assailed on both the far-left and the far-right by an ideology of “hate your neighbor unless he thinks and acts like yourself,” our society is in grave danger.

When two innocent, unarmed, young people are murdered in the street of DC simply because they have attended a Jewish event, it is time for a reckoning, for a complete repudiation of the neo-fascist dogma that is being taught in our halls of learning and spewed in our public square, and for a return to Torah/Judeo-Christian values of love, respect, and brotherhood on which our republic was founded.

Torah teaches that regardless of our differences, we are one. Beneath the varied veneers that distinguish us, there is an essential spark of Godliness that fundamentally defines us and unites us. The solution to the divisiveness that threatens to tear us apart is not political, or social, or economic. It is spiritual. We must remind ourselves of what we truly are in order to work together to actualize what we are ultimately and collectively intended to be.

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