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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.

**Abba Hillel Silver, ''Vision and Victory'', 1949.

**[https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/philosophy-and-religion/judaism-biographies/abba-hillel-silver 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 [https://www.sefaria.org/Ketubot.111a.20?lang=en&with=all&lang2=en&p3=Isaiah.42.5&lang3=en 111a:20]. Quoted in ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/14368/pg14368-images.html Hebraic Literature]''

**Talmud, Kethuboth [https://www.sefaria.org/Ketubot.111a.20?lang=en&with=all&lang2=en&p3=Isaiah.42.5&lang3=en 111a:20]. 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]''

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

*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.

**Talmud: ''Gittin'', 57a:13. Quoted in ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/14368/pg14368-images.html Hebraic Literature]''

**Rabbi Ulla in Talmud: ''Gittin'', 57a:13. 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.

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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.
-**Abba Hillel Silver, ''Vision and Victory'', 1949.
+**[https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/philosophy-and-religion/judaism-biographies/abba-hillel-silver 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 [https://www.sefaria.org/Ketubot.111a.20?lang=en&with=all&lang2=en&p3=Isaiah.42.5&lang3=en 111a:20]. Quoted in ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/14368/pg14368-images.html Hebraic Literature]''
+**Talmud, Kethuboth [https://www.sefaria.org/Ketubot.111a.20?lang=en&with=all&lang2=en&p3=Isaiah.42.5&lang3=en 111a:20]. 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]''
+**''Mishnah Kelim'', [https://www.sefaria.org/Mishnah_Kelim.1.6?lang=bi 1:6]. 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.
+*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.
-**Talmud: ''Gittin'', 57a:13. Quoted in ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/14368/pg14368-images.html Hebraic Literature]''
+**Rabbi Ulla in Talmud: ''Gittin'', 57a:13. 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.