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Avira, with all of our striving we need siyata Dishmaya from Hashem Yisborach. We require His help to be mechaven the emes, Torah aliba dehilchasa. The Midrash Shmuel asks on כל מחלוקת לשם שמים סופו להתקיים, all arguments for a Divine purpose, who wants a machlokes, an argument to stand? He answers that the Beis Shamai because through their opposite view helped the Beis Hilel to arrive to the truth became also praiseworthy. The Beis Hilel, because of their humility, also allowed them to come first to be able to hear another view in order to avoid tunnel vision, seeing only one side of an argument.