What makes the Jewish covenant?

A covenant is not held together by power but by an internalized sense of identity, kinship and loyalty.  This can never be taken for granted. Hence the centrality in Judaism of education, the festivals, prayer and the reading of the Torah.  In education we pass on our ideals from one generation to the next. In festivals we transmit our history and memories. In communal prayer we remind ourselves that what we seek, we seek together.  When we read the Torah, our covenantal constitution, we reaffirm our existence as a community under the sovereignty of God. I know of no more majestic vision of what it might be to build a society of justice and compassion. (Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, A Letter in the Scroll, pg.128)

If you create it, we will come together!