GEN22 Reverence (mora) for your teacher should be like the reverence for Heaven. Pirkei Avot IV:15 … Our Torah … places great stress on the need for harmonious, peaceful relations. Numerous passages in the Midrash begin, gadol hum hashalom, “great is peace,” and go on to bring a variety of proofs for the statement from Scripture. [citations] And as the mishnah states so beautifully at its ever end, “The Holy, Blessed One found no other vessel to contain blessings for the people Israel but peace.” [Mishnah, Uktzin iii 12; repeated in Midrash Rabbah, Deuteronomy v 14].  What good is it to receive all the blessings and presents in the world, if you have no proper vessel, no basket or container to hold them? They will slip from your hands, through your fingers, and soon be lost.  If there is no peace among human beings, every other blessing and good will soon be valueless and gone.  How thoroughly our Torah is imbued with this theme—the value of peace, the condemnation of conflict and disunity—we can learn from this passage in the Midrash: “Why is it not written about [the creation of] the second day, ‘[and God saw that] it was good’ [as it is written for every other of the six days of creation]? … R. Hanina replied: Because on that day divisiveness was crated, as it is stated, ‘and let [the firmament] divide the waters from the waters.’ [this verse]. Said R. Tavyomi: If at a machloketh, a division, for the proper structure and settlement of the world, the words ki tov, ‘that it was good,’ are omitted—how much more certainly [must they be omitted] for a machloketh, a division and conflict, to confound the world. [Midrash Rabbah, Genesis iv 6]. SINAI2 110