Quotes about Palestine: Difference between revisions

<small>Also see ''[[Quotes denying Palestine]]''.</small>

* As long as in our heart of hearts

::There throbs a Jewish soul,

**[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Twain Mark Twain], [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3176/3176-h/3176-h.htm ''The Innocents Abroad''].

* To be buried in Palestine is like being buried under the altar.

**Mishnah, quoted in ''The Jewish Encyclopedia'', “[https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11867-palestine-holiness-of Holiness of Palestine].”

* He who traverses so much as four ells in the land of Israel is sure of everlasting life.

* There are ten degrees of holiness, and Palestine is holy above all other lands.

**''Mishnah Kelim'', [https://www.sefaria.org/Mishnah_Kelim.1.6?lang=bi 1:6].

**[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/johanan-ben-nappaha Rabbi Yoḥanan] in ''Midrash Mishle'' [https://www.sefaria.org/Midrash_Mishlei.17.1?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en 17:1].

* There are ten portions of courage in the world, nine in Judah and one in the rest of the world. There are ten portions of beauty in the world, nine in Jerusalem and one in the rest of the world. There are ten portions of wisdom in the world, nine in the Land of Israel and one in the rest of the world.

**Gamaliel II. Talmud: ''Sabbath'', [https://www.sefaria.org/Shabbat.30b.10?lang=bi 30b].

* Palestine is the center of the world, Jerusalem the center of Palestine, and the Temple the center of Jerusalem... In the Holy of Holies there was a stone, the foundation of the world.

*The inheritance of a deer, as the skin of a deer, unoccupied by the body of the animal, shrinks, so also the the land of the deer <small>([https://hebrew-academy.org.il/%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%A5-%D7%94%D7%A6%D7%91%D7%99/ alternative name for the land of Israel])</small>, unoccupied by its rightful owners, became contracted.

**[https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13723-simeon-ben-yohai Rabbi Shim‘on ben Yoḥai], Talmud: ''Berakhot'' [https://www.sefaria.org/Berakhot.5a.20?lang=en&with=all&lang2=en 5a:20].

*Each land has some unique property, but the Land of Israel is endowed with all of these, lacking none.

* The generation of Jews we wish to raise in the Land of Israel will be not of the twelfth or of the twentieth century, but, on the one hand, of the thirtieth, and, on the other hand, of a much earlier age, earlier than your entire era, of the period of the Prophets and the Hasmoneans.

*The heart of the people—that is the foundation on which the land will be regenerated.

*In Palestine we can and should found for ourselves a spiritual center of our nationality.

**[[zionism-israel:bio/kalischer_biography.htm|Zvi Hirsch Kalischer]], ''Derishat Zion'', 1862. Quoted in Hess, ''Rome & Jerusalem'', 264.

*The very name Palestine stirs within us the most elevated sentiments. ... All find consolation in that land, some by its memories, others by its hopes.

*The generation of Jews we wish to raise in the Land of Israel will be not of the twelfth or of the twentieth century, but, on the one hand, of the thirtieth, and, on the other hand, of a much earlier age, earlier than your entire era, of the period of the Prophets and the Hasmoneans.