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*We come to Zion only by way of Zion.
*We come to Zion only by way of Zion.
**[https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/buber/ Martin Buber], ''Zion als Ziel und Aujgabe'', 1936.
**[https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/buber/ Martin Buber], ''Zion als Ziel und Aujgabe'', 1936.
*Political Zionism is problematic for obvious reasons. But I can never forget what it achieved as a moral force in an era of complete dissolution. It helped to stem the tide of ‘progressive’ leveling of venerable, ancestral differences; it fulfilled a conservative function.
** [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/strauss-leo/ Leo Strauss], ''Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity: Essays and Lectures in Modern Jewish Thought'', 1997, State University of New York Press, pp. 413–14.


==Other notables==
==Other notables==
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*Before, or at least along with, the redemption of the soil there must be also the redemption of the soul.
*Before, or at least along with, the redemption of the soil there must be also the redemption of the soul.
**[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Judah-Leib-Gordon Judah Leib Gordon], letter to S. Bernfeld, Jan. 31, 1888. ''[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ien.35556039672548 Igrot, ii]''. p. 248.
**[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Judah-Leib-Gordon Judah Leib Gordon], letter to S. Bernfeld, Jan. 31, 1888. ''[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ien.35556039672548 Igrot, ii]''. p. 248.
*Political Zionism is problematic for obvious reasons. But I can never forget what it achieved as a moral force in an era of complete dissolution. It helped to stem the tide of ‘progressive’ leveling of venerable, ancestral differences; it fulfilled a conservative function.
** [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/strauss-leo/ Leo Strauss], ''Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity: Essays and Lectures in Modern Jewish Thought'', 1997, State University of New York Press, pp. 413–14.




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