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. . . We believe that our outlook on social life in general is more refined and purer than that of contemporary civilized nations. Our family is sacred to us in a manner more profound than [is the…
Contributor:
Abraham Isaac Kook
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1920
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I was honored to receive your request to express my opinion on the current question of electing women to the Jewish representative assembly…
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Abraham Isaac Kook
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1919
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54. There are two paths toward faith; one is the absolutely true one, and the other is the rational one. The latter changes in accordance with the times. There are occasions when, if there is some…
Contributor:
Abraham Isaac Kook
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
ca. 1920
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Before continuing my story about the events in Pinsk in the summer of 1940, I would like to digress briefly into the realm of the miraculous. Let us imagine the impossible—something fantastic and…
Contributor:
Julius Margolin
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1947
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Reform Judaism is the second historical distortion of the Jewish religion. For the service of God through Torah and Mitzvoth as the end of religion, the Reform movement substitutes an end the Jewish…
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Yeshayahu Leibowitz
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1975
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Eretz-Israel [The Land of Israel] was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they first attained to statehood, created cultural…
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Provisional Government of the State of Israel
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1948
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It is with a feeling of deep reverence and consecration that I rise to open the Constituent Assembly of the State of Israel, the first Knesset Israel of our time in this eternal…
Contributor:
Chaim Weizmann
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1949
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[ . . . ] I find myself obliged to commence with a general preface, which I bring to the fore on each occasion that I have occasion to speak about the way of “the Mizrachi” [movement] and its value…
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Abraham Isaac Kook
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
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Date unknown, late 19th–early 20th century
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Our state is young, with a girl’s years, just fourteen. Still without her shoes, as the poet says. But she seems old, many generations old. In these few years, old age has pounced on her. No one is…
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Chaim Hazaz
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1962
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Remove your shoes from your feet and, barefoot, feel the earth!
Whatever was in the past and be what may now—today the land is ours, the heavens are ours, and the sea is our sea.
Let us go out to the…
Contributor:
Gershom Shofman
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1949