All In The Family
The Torah says: לֹא תִתְגֹּדְדוּ (You should not cut yourselves). The gemora uses this pasuk to tell us that we should not, when together, become splintered groups—agudos agudos. I once heard a question, as to whether there is a connection between the simple pshat, referring to distorting one’s body and the gemora’s explanation of splintering [...]
