When you put all kinds of ingredients together, things that seemingly wouldn’t go together, you get a cholent. In a deeper sense, cholent is symbolic of klal yisrael, and the human family, as a whole. We’re made up of people of many different gifts, persuasions, hashkafot, personalities, approaches, cultures, backgrounds, and walks of life. When these things are considered individually, on their own, they seem distasteful, unusual, unpalatable, and out of place. But when this great diversity is brought together, and all come together, and mingle, interact, and have the opportunity to “cook” together, the results are quite delicious, and the whole ends up being greater than the sum of its parts.
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