Our Sages, of blessed memory, differed as to which of the commandments included the most commandments. One said "Love thy neighbor as thyself" – that the commandment in which most of the Torah is included is brotherly love. That we should love each member of the people of Israel as our own souls, and be compassionate one to another. On the basis of this principle, elders should be appointed to institute the ingathering and to reconcile between us – in written and spoken laws, and in customs – since love is only between equals, and so that our Torah and religious observance not be [divided by] Sephardi, Ashkenazi, Polish, French or Italian custom and the like…
For the dwellers of the Land and those who will arrive…will be called Israelis, so that they may conduct themselves in love and brotherhood as appropriate to the ingathering.