NOTES for Psa 133

Is it always good for brothers to dwell together? Cain was a brother too, and it was none other than his own brothers who sold Joseph into slavery.

All this is true, and one could multiply such examples. Fortunately, however, this is not the whole truth: in every age one can find many examples of genuine brotherhood, and it does not depend on blood kinship. Such brotherhood is rightly compared to the gifts of those places where the Lord has commanded blessing and life forever; the possibility of full and genuine relationships between people is one of His gifts.

At the very creation of man, the Lord said, “It is not good for man to be alone.” The powers of darkness know this too, which is why they seek to destroy us by separating us and plunging each person alone into his inner darkness, into slavery to his own self. But “let us join hands, friends, so that we do not perish one by one!” On the path toward the light, it is very important to move beyond isolation and obsessive concern with our own problems alone, and to become able to see those who will become our brothers and sisters.