(ג) יְרוּשָׁלַ֥͏ִם הַבְּנוּיָ֑ה כְּ֝עִ֗יר שֶׁחֻבְּרָה־לָּ֥הּ יַחְדָּֽו׃ ... (ח) לְ֭מַעַן אַחַ֣י וְרֵעָ֑י אֲדַבְּרָה־נָּ֖א שָׁל֣וֹם בָּֽךְ׃ (ט) לְ֭מַעַן בֵּית־יקוק אֱלֹקֵ֑ינוּ אֲבַקְשָׁ֖ה ט֣וֹב לָֽךְ׃ {פ}
(3) Jerusalem built up, a city knit together, ...(8) For the sake of my kin [family] and friends, I pray for your well-being; (9) for the sake of the house of the LORD our God [The Temple], I seek your good.
(2) ויחן שם ישראל AND THERE ISRAEL ENCAMPED as one person and with one mind and heart — but all their other encampments were made in a murmuring spirit and in a spirit of dissension [disagreement] (Mekhilta d'Rabbi Yishmael 19:2:10).
אמר רבי יהושע בן לוי: "ירושלים הבנויה כעיר שחוברה לה יחדיו" - עיר שהיא עושה כל ישראל חברים." (תלמוד ירושלמי, חגיגה, ב', ו')
Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi said: "Jerusalem built up, a city knit together" - a city which makes all of Israel friends. (Yerushalmi, Chagigah, 2:6)
2. Can the Jewish people be like one person with one mind and one heart? In which ways?
3. Are the Jewish people more united or more divided? In which ways?
4. The Rabbis teach us that the Second Temple was destroyed (on Tisha BeAv - the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av - in the year 70 CE) because of unnecessary hatred (שנאת חינם/sinat chinam) between Jews. How can we promote unnecessary love (אהבת חינם/ahavat chinam) between Jews?