Like one man with one heart or like one heart, like one man
By zevi770 · June 10, 2013
We find two times these statements are used, amazingly similar, but yet, such different groups.
When the Jewish people were encamped around Mount Sinai they were like one man with one heart, yet when the Egyptians pursued them to kill them at the red-sea, the Egyptians were referred to, as “one heart, like one man!”
Can it be, the holiest and the most evil, are called by similar statements?!
But as in everything our sages teach and the Rebbe clarifies, there is deep significance between the change of order.
Like one man with one heart means, we identify with each other, hence, we sees the similarity, so we extend our self-love to one another!
On the other hand, one heart actually means, we DON’T identify with each other; rather, there is a cause that unites us; in this case, the evil of arrogance, to murder their slaves for running away; such people may be united in body, but have no real unity, for they don’t intrinsically see how they are similar, it is only outside causes which bind them temporarily!
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