Quotes about Palestine: Difference between revisions
Created page with "There is no collection online about Palestine, which is surprising but also not surprising. We compiled a list of Quotes about Palestine, which is Eretz Yisrael, The land of Israel, Canaan, the holy land etc. ==Quotes== *The Land of Israel is the holiest of lands. **''Numbers Rabbah'', 7.8. *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..." |
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*The Land of Israel will be small but the people of Israel will make it great. ... Not in opulence but in eminence will their destiny be fulfilled, and the elixir of their pride will be distilled not out of dominion or far-flung borders, but out of the faithful and skillful building of the good society. | *The Land of Israel will be small but the people of Israel will make it great. ... Not in opulence but in eminence will their destiny be fulfilled, and the elixir of their pride will be distilled not out of dominion or far-flung borders, but out of the faithful and skillful building of the good society. | ||
**Abba Hillel Silver, ''Vision and Victory'', 1949. | **Abba Hillel Silver, ''Vision and Victory'', 1949. | ||
*He who traverses so much as four ells in the land of Israel is sure of everlasting life. | |||
**Talmud, Kethuboth, fol. 65, col. 1. Quoted in ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/14368/pg14368-images.html Hebraic Literature]'' | |||
*There are ten degrees of holiness, and the land of Israel is holy above all other lands. | |||
**Talmud: ''Kelim'', chap. i, mish. 6. Quoted in ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/14368/pg14368-images.html Hebraic Literature]'' | |||
*The inheritance of a deer, as the skin of a deer, unoccupied by the body of the animal, shrinks, so also the land of Israel, unoccupied by its rightful owners, became contracted. | |||
**Talmud: ''Gittin'', fol. 57, col. 1. Quoted in ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/14368/pg14368-images.html Hebraic Literature]'' | |||
*The land of Israel is situated in the centre of the world, and Jerusalem in the centre of the land of Israel, and the Temple in the centre of Jerusalem, and the Holy of holies in the centre of the Temple, and the foundation-stone on which the world was grounded, is situated in front of the ark. | |||
**''Midrash Tillin Terumah'', Kedoshim. Quoted in ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/14368/pg14368-images.html Hebraic Literature]'' | |||
*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]'' | |||
*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'' | |||
*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. | |||
**''Midrash Rabbah Esther'' | |||
*When the Jewish people will have redeemed the Land of Israel, the Land of Israel will redeem the Jewish people. | *When the Jewish people will have redeemed the Land of Israel, the Land of Israel will redeem the Jewish people. | ||