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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. | ||
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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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