The Future: Two and Three (Part III)

The entire liturgy and premise of the Torah is unity, yet all I hear is the joke about two and three: people and opinions.

First, we have no Vatican, and, unlike Islam, we were exiled from our holiest city. Dispersion was a reality that became a strategy. Multiple views and opinions are built into our culture, irrevocably.

Second, what does two people having three opinions mean? It could mean that each person has his own opinion and that the two agree on one opinion together. It could mean that one of them disagrees with himself, so two people generate three opinions; but what I think it means is this: the third opinion is the opinion before the world – what we present to others.

Such a third opinion is a problem. But if forming a Jewish state was to be a public event, this third opinion will not go away. Then, what can change? We can stop performing this third opinion in English.

Now, go! Learn Hebrew.