Jewish Unity: Loving Beyond Our Differences - 5 Minutes on Parshat Vayeira - Rabbi Avi Hoolin

So this week's parsha, parsha Vayeira, very interesting exchange, right? Um Sarah laughs when when Hashem when she's told that she's going to have a child and she says that how could I have a child? My husband is is is older already. And when Hashem repeats that message back to Avraham Avinu, Hashem responds the other way around that she said that she is old. And Chazal say that the reason why Hashem changed it was to preserve the peace, that it shouldn't come out that she called her husband old. We're talking about a couple that's from the Avos, the fathers of our nation. Were together for many many years. And a slight deviation, think about in your home, such a deviation, is that important? The beauty of peace. When we think about it. How important is peace? We know in the times of Achav, the Yerushalmi in Pe'ah tells us that his generation served Avodah Zarah, they served idols. But because they were still peaceful with each other and there was unity in the nation, they still won wars. We're living in a time the whole world is against us. Whoever could possibly have a voice in the media, in the world, whatever they could post it's against the Jews. When Hitler spoke up and went into power, he didn't differentiate between what religious sect you're part of or whether you're a Jew to the right or you're Jew to the left. The point to him was that you are a Jew. And when we need the Gentiles point out where our similarity is, that's a problem. Cuz we have to find where we're similar from within. We're going through a lot of politics right now in the land of Israel, and there are many views. But I guess my call is, and it's something that we could think about, we don't need anybody else to remind us where we're similar. If only we could take for 1 minute and sit down with a pen and paper and write all the points that we're so similar in, and all the points how we care about each other, and all the points when October 7th hits, how we reacted, we didn't care about any differences but the fact to save one another, cuz that's who we are. How much chesed, kindness, we have in the world and organizations to help each other there are. So let us focus on those similarities. And now, let's break it down that there are differences. We have differences of opinion. But what's the way when someone argues, when they respect each other, and they quote a difference of an opinion? What accomplishments we can make when we do that? Or just the other way around, when it's just baseless hate. When it's just a way to either gain political power or just to spread hate against another Jew. And we know that's what brought the destruction of the Second Temple, and when we're trying to bring Moshiach, the only thing that we're trying to bring is unity. So let's think to ourselves right now, how could we go ahead and bring more unity in Klal Yisrael, and come together and put our differences aside? We have a guy like Naftali Bennett that went ahead in another election, and to go and give $50 to the Arabs because of political power, and then to go and slash people. That's not what we're about. We're about unity, and we're a nation built on unity. And we have to come together and say, "Who is going to be here starting with us?" The same way every vote counts, every person's change in perspective counts. And say, "One second, instead of me thinking right away, where am I different than the other person? Where are we similar? Where do we connect? Where do we care about each other?" Cuz that's what we're about. We're a nation that's a cloud Israel. Hashem loves peace. And may we be say, "How may we merit to come together and to be unified and to bring Messiah?"