Coming Together

So kind of in response to what Alex said earlier about dor haflaga being a worser punishment than dor hamabul because now the whole world is separated. Just coming back from an NCSY shabbaton, I have heard many divrei Torah over the last 3 days. Some of which is actually applicable to out topic. Alex mentioned that the whole world is now separate because of the language barrier. I have to disagree with that statement. Today we see Jews all over the country and even all over the world. Even though we do not speak the same language as a Jew in a different country does not mean we don't communicate with them. When we go to Israel, we find a way to communicate with our fellow Jews. G-d separated us from each other by giving us a language barrier, but I think that has only brought us together. Now we have to work harder to communicate sometimes, but I think in the end it only brings us closer. On the shabbaton there were people from all over. Not only from the midwest regions but also from Los Angeles, Texas and New York as well. We didn't necessarily have a language barrier, in fact language was not an issue at all. We all spoke English (some of the NCSYers more languages than other). The reference I am trying to make is that language is not the only barrier we create in this world. There were people who were religious and went to an orthodox school and some who have never made a bracha before in their life. unfortunately we sometime make a barrier between those people and ourselves. I think though, that especially something like NCSY or even just hanging out with different people, we break down those barriers. Sometime barriers end up bringing us closer. In the end, G-d's punishment has put a damper on communicated, but I think personally it has only brought me closer to my people and all Jews around the world because now I want to try and do everything I can to communicate with them and I try harder to communicate with those people that are not easy to. We don't always see the good in G-d's punishments, but they are always for our own good. I think we can take away from this punishment is that sometimes we have to work towards things. Unity is just another one of those things.