The Torah tells us that when we are serving G-d appropriately, and He is fighting on our side, “Five of you shall chase one hundred enemies, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand.” If a hundred is twenty times five, and five people can chase a hundred people, it stands to reason that a hundred people can chase twenty times that amount, or two thousand people. How then, can it be that the Torah says they will be able to chase ten thousand, or a hundred times the amount?
The answer, of course, is that we’re discussing exponential growth. When Jews are united, they give each other strength. HaShem wants us to realize that being divisive makes us our own worst enemy, weakening us more than any outside force. On the flip side, though, when we get together, there’s nothing that can stop us.
