Quotes about Palestine: Difference between revisions

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*Better to lodge in the wilderness of the land of Israel than dwell in the palaces outside of it.

**''Midrash Rabbah'', ~~chap~~. 39. Quoted in ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/14368/pg14368-images.html Hebraic Literature]''

**''Midrash Rabbah'', [https://www.sefaria.org/Bereshit_Rabbah.39?ven=english|The_Sefaria_Midrash_Rabbah,_2022&lang=bi 39:8]. Quoted in ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/14368/pg14368-images.html Hebraic Literature]''

*He who walks but an hour in the land of Israel, and then dies within it may feel assured that he is a son of the world to come

**''Midrash Mishle''

**[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].

*~~Ten~~ portions of ~~wisdom~~, ten portions of the ~~law~~, and ten portions of ~~hypocrisy are~~ in the world; nine ~~portions of each are~~ in the ~~land~~ of Israel and one ~~outside~~ of it.

*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.

**''Midrash Rabbah Esther''

**[https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11344-nathan Rabbi Natan] ''Midrash Rabbah Esther'', [https://www.sefaria.org/Esther_Rabbah.1.17?ven=english|The_Sefaria_Midrash_Rabbah,_2022&lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en 1:17].

*When the Jewish people will have redeemed the Land of Israel, the Land of Israel will redeem the Jewish people.

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*The air of the Land of Israel makes one wise.

** ~~Zera~~. ''Talmud: Baba Bathra'', 158b.

**[https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/zeeira Rabbi Zeira]. ''Talmud: Baba Bathra'', 158b.

*Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, O My people; and I will bring you into the Land of Israel... And I will put My spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I will place you in your own land.

**Bible, Ezekiel 37.

**Bible, Ezekiel [https://www.sefaria.org/Ezekiel.37.13?lang=he&with=all&lang2=en 37:13-15].

*The Holy One, Blessed be He, gave Israel three precious gifts... These gifts are: Torah, Eretz Israel, and the World-to-Come.

**Rabbi Shim‘on ben Yoḥai, ''Talmud: Berakhot 5a''.

**[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].

*Upon you, upon the youth, will it depend whether Palestine is to be come the center of mankind or a Jewish Albania, the salvation of nations or the toy of the Powers. Zion will not arise in the physical world if you do not prepare for it in your souls.

**Martin Buber, ''Zion and Youth'', 1918.

**[[zionism-israel:/bio/Martin_Buber.htm|Martin Buber]], ''Zion and Youth'', 1918.

*We come to Zion only by way of Zion.

**Martin Buber, ''Zion als Ziel und Aujgabe'', 1936.

**[[zionism-israel:/bio/Martin_Buber.htm|Martin Buber]], ''Zion als Ziel und Aujgabe'', 1936.

*The God of might, who conquered Canaan with storm, How they have bound Him with tefillin straps!

**Shaul Tchernichovsky, “LeNokah Pesel Apollo,” 1911. Kol Shire, i. 205.

**[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saul-Gutmanovich-Tchernichowsky Shaul Tchernichovsky], “LeNokah Pesel Apollo,” 1911. Kol Shire, i. 205.

*Women will bear daily. ... Trees will yield fruit daily... Eretz Israel will bring forth ready cakes and woolen robes.

**Gamaliel II. ''Talmud: Sabbath'', 30b.

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

*It is hard to be a worker; it is a hundred times harder to be a Jewish worker; it is a thousand times harder to be a Jewish worker in Eretz Israel.