Land of Israel
The Land of Israel (אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל Éretz Yisra'él) is the traditional Jewish name for an area of the Southern Levant. Related biblical, religious, and historical English terms include the Canaan, the Promised Land, the Holy Land, and Palestine.
Quotes
[edit]- Where the Orient and the Occident meet, there lies the land of Canaan. From the Occident there beats a wild continuous wave ... a thirst for life and personality, a will for action, for happiness, for power. ... But from the east there comes a message of gentle wisdom. Non-resistance, ... passivity, renunciation. ... In that tiny land dwelt the folk of Israel, keen of eye and of ear. . . . And the little nation writes the two books which have most of all changed the face of the world, the great Book of Deeds, the Old Testament, and the great Book of Renunciation, the New Testament. But the stubborn desire for immortality remains the dominant note in all its living and writing.
- Lion Feuchtwanger, Power, 1925, p. 349f.
- The generation of Jews we wish to raise in the Land of Israel will be not of the twelfth or of the twentieth century, but, on the one hand, of the thirtieth, and, on the other hand, of a much earlier age, earlier than your entire era, of the period of the Prophets and the Hasmoneans.
- Samuel Mohilever, letter to S. Reinach. 1896. Quoted in J. Mark. Gdoilim fun undzer Dor. New York, 1927, 245.
- The Land of Israel is the holiest of lands.
- Numbers Rabbah, 7.8.
- 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.
- When the Jewish people will have redeemed the Land of Israel, the Land of Israel will redeem the Jewish people.
- Menachem Ussishkin. Eretz Israel, 1932, p. 4.
- The air of the Land of Israel makes one wise.
- Zera. Talmud: Baba Bathra, 158b.
