I will grant peace in the land. You will lie down with no cause for fear. I will remove wild beasts from the land, and no army will pass through your land.
Leviticus 26:6
Rashi states that all the blessings of prosperity mentioned in the previous verses are worthless unless we are blessed with peace.
This is true in our personal lives as well. We cannot begin to make use of the gifts of wealth, family, health, and talents with which G-d has blessed us unless we are first at peace with ourselves and those around us. Our minds and hearts are battlefields of conflicting ideas and emotions, the people closest to us all have divergent needs and agendas, and the world at large is a cacophony of voices pulling everyone in different directions. We will therefore be too confused and distracted to accomplish anything unless we possess a strategy for reconciling all these competing forces.
That strategy is the Torah, whose “ways are ways of pleasantness and all its paths are peace.” The Torah teaches us how to subdue our material drives to our spiritual drives, giving our lives clarity and unity of purpose. When our family lives are guided by the Torah’s values, there is domestic harmony. Strong foundations of personal and family peace enable us to then promote peace in society both by means of our personal, inspiring example and by disseminating Divine consciousness.
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