And that's why Hakadosh Baruch Hu rejoiced most when we were living together as one nation in our land. Because it was one nation under G-d. Dovid Hamelech and his company sat in the evenings or in the mornings or sometimes all day and they sang songs to the Creator, thanking Hashem for His kindliness. And these songs went forth from the palace and were hummed and repeated by the entire nation. A whole nation that understood their function in this world.
Even long after Dovid, for many centuries, the spirit of ִי ּ יָצַרְ ת ּ עַם זו ּ ָתִ י יְסַ פֵּ רו ּ ְ הִ ל ּ לִי ת poured out of the gates of Yerushalayim into the suburbs and into the rest of Eretz Yisroel. And so it was a nation, ְ לֵ ב ּ ְ אִ ישׁ אֶ חָ ד ב ּ כ אֶ חָ ד, proud of its function and living up to their purpose to the greatest extent possible.
