Jerusalem: Its Redemption and Future; the Great Drama of Deliverance Described by Eyewitnesses |
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Page 17 - Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
Page 54 - Furthermore, since your city is regarded with affection by the adherents of three of the great religions of mankind and its soil has been consecrated by the prayers and pilgrimages of multitudes of devout people of these three religions for many centuries, therefore, do I make...
Page 53 - However, lest any of you should be alarmed by reason of your experience at the hands of the enemy who has retired, I hereby inform you that it is my desire that every person should pursue his lawful business without fear of interruption. • "Furthermore, since your city is regarded with affection by the adherents of three of the great religions of mankind, and its soil has been consecrated by the prayers and pilgrimages of...
Page 180 - The country is extremely fertile . . . goodly streams flow through the valleys, which are filled with trees and flowers ; while on the uplands to the east rich pasture lands and corn fields may everywhere be seen.
Page 60 - Israel have not utterly perished, that under the aegis of this University there will be a renaissance of the Divine power of prophetic wisdom that once was ours ? The University will be the focus of the rehabilitation of our Jewish consciousness now so tenuous, because it has become so world-diffused.
Page 177 - Through God we shall do valiantly : for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
Page 61 - There will go forth, too, inspiration and strength, that shall revivify the powers now latent in our scattered communities. Here the wandering soul of Israel shall reach its haven ; its strength no longer consumed in restless and vain wanderings. Israel shall at last remain at peace within itself and with the world. There is a Talmudic legend that tells of the Jewish soul deprived of its body, hovering between heaven and earth. Such is our soul to-day ; to-morrow it shall come to rest, in this our...
Page 197 - ... commanded to take, in a vision, the preceding night. When Alexander beheld the high-priest he instantly advanced to meet him, adored the sacred NAME inscribed on his mitre, and saluted him first. This singular conduct the hero accounted for by observing to those around him— " I adore not the high-priest, but the God with whose priesthood he is honored.
Page 60 - Here, out of the misery and the desolation of war, is being created the first germ of a new life. Hitherto we have been content to speak of Reconstruction and Restoration.
Page 61 - Our University, formed by Jewish learning and Jewish energy, will mould itself into an integral part of our national structure which is in process of erection. It will have a centripetal force, attracting all that is noblest in Jewry throughout the world ; a unifying centre for our scattered elements. There will go forth, too, inspiration and strength, that shall revivify the powers now latent in our scattered communities. Here the wandering soul of Israel shall reach its haven ; its strength no...