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When I took up my theme and said, When I to Zion from Spanish exile went My soul from depths to heaven made ascent, Greatly rejoicing that day, God’s hill to see The day for which I longed since I had come to be. Judah Al-Harizi
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“Ten measures of beauty descended upon the world, nine were given to Jerusalem and one to the rest of the world.”—Midrash Tanhuma, Kedoshim 10
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“I really wish the Jews again in Judea an independent nation.”–John Adams, 2nd U.S. president
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“If a land can have a soul, than Jerusalem is the soul of the land of Israel.”—Prime Minister David Ben Gurion
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“I firmly believe God has blessed the Jew. If this nation wants her fields to remain white with grain, her scientific achievements to remain notable, and her freedom to remain intact, America must continue to stand with Israel.”-–Jerry Falwell
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“The Arab states do not want to solve the refugee problem. They want to keep it an open sore, as an affront to the UN and as a weapon against Israel.” –Ralph Galloway, former Director of UNRWA, August 1958
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“If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child…
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“Today let us take our place at Jesus’ side and look upon His people with His eyes, full of love and mercy. Then our hearts would ache to see this chosen people of God wandering through the centuries, wretched, despised, shunned, ostracized, and afflicted with pain like the suffering Servant of God in Isaiah 53. …
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Have we any heritage save the sanctuaries of God? then how should we forget His Holy Mount? Have we either in the East or the West A place of hope wherein we may trust Except the land that is full of gates Towards which the gates of Heaven open. Judah HaLevi, the Spanish Jewish Poet,…
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“We have never been the same since the day on which God overwhelmed us at Sinai.”-–Abraham Joshua Heschel.