sorry its from a few parshiyos back but then again i havent been here since a few parshios back! here goes.
“Behold–the people, the children of Israel are more numerous and stronger than we” (1:9). This passuk teaches us that when Jews act as one people, free of discord and strife, then the nations of the world see them as “more numerous and stronger” than themselves and realize that they cannot dominate the Yidden.
This can be compared to a father who invited all of his children to his home. When they arrived, he gathered them around him. The father had several thin identical twigs in his hand, and he gave one to each of his children and asked each child to break them, which they did easily.
The father then passed around a bundle of twigs tied together and asked them to break it, but none of them were able to. “You see,” the father said, “as long as you remain united in the same way that these branches are united, nobody will ever be able to harm you! But if you act divisively and there is disharmony among you, then be aware that a lone individual is as easily broken as a single thin twig.”
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