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Though the vine be supported by straight reeds and forked reeds, it cannot stand up under the weight of the wine in its grapes. So if wine's own mother cannot bear its burden, how then can you?
— Midrash Rabbah
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Naturally, we think of the Jewish people as a conglomerate of many Jews. But the Baal Shem Tov saw the Jewish people as a single, indivisible whole.

Think of a geometrical point. A point is indivisible, but not because it is too hard, too big, or too small to cut up. A point simply has no area to be divided. That’...