SEFER SHMIRAS HALOSHON ?
Peace in Two Worlds ?
Sefer Ma’alos HaMiddos (24) states:
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How damaging is strife! — it can imperil one’s very life. It was the feud between the shepherds of Avraham and the shepherds of Lot that caused Lot to move away from Avraham and settle in Sodom where he almost perished along with the rest of the Sodomites.
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Our Sages state (Derech Eretz Zuta ch. 9): “A home in which there is strife will ultimately be destroyed; a synagogue in which there is strife will see its congregants dispersed, and ultimately will be made desolate; a city in which there is strife will become
a place of bloodshed. Two Torah scholars in a single city or two rabbinical courts in a single city who feud with one another — their end will be death. Moreover, strife between rabbinical courts brings destruction to the world. For when there is peace among
God’s legions on this world, there is peace among the Heavenly legions, as it is written, “Who builds His upper chambers in the Heavens, and His union is established upon the earth” (Amos 9:6). When are His upper chambers “built’’? When “His union is established
on this earth,’’ meaning, when the Jewish nation is united in peace.
