Shavuot is not only the day Hashem gave the Ten Commandments and ultimately the Torah, it is also the day all Jews stood in unison. United in the greatest gift to mankind of all history. !
When People are united with common interests it is call “Society”
But what is the glue that holds a society together ?
Society is essentially defined as “An organized group of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes.”
There is a popular school of thought that religion is the main cause of war in our “society.” Besides this being factually and statistically untrue, I propose that before or without religion, humans would never have developed into societies at all.
We would still be living in animal like lawlessness, governed only by human selfishness. Civilization could only come about with the stability of lawmakers and the enforcers of those laws. But what drives the lawmakers and enforcement officers themselves to behave morally?
Ultimately it is the fear and awe of a power greater than themselves and the direction we all need from this higher power, the understanding that there exists an omnipotent consciousness with a moral essence, and that ultimately there are consequences to our deeds.
In conclusion morality is necessary for for a society to be productive. Once these ethics deteriorate, the framework of the civilization will ultimately fail. History substantiates this with indisputable accuracy.
