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"We have guarded the Book for thousands of years and it has guarded us." ~~ David Ben-Gurion

Filed Under: David Ben-Gurion, History, Israel, Torah/Bible/Tanach

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"If you see a generation drowning in a sea of troubles, go forth and consider what the judges of Israel do!" ~~ Talmud, Shabbat

Filed Under: History, Justice and Law, Talmud, Shabbat, Torah/Bible/Tanach



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"Many pens are broken, and seas of ink consumed, to descibe things that never happened." ~~ Midrash Tanchuma

Filed Under: Books, History, Midrash

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"The legends of a nation reveal its character to us more clearly than its acts and accidents." ~~ Jacob Klatzkin

Filed Under: History, Jacob Klatzkin

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"Preservation of the special character of nations is essential for progress." ~~ Ze’ev Vladimir Jabotinsky

Filed Under: History, Ze'ev Vladimir Jabotinsky



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"A people’s memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better." ~~ Isaac Peretz

Filed Under: History, Isaac Peretz, Israel

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"The Jews are God’s stake in human history." ~~ A. J. Heschel

Filed Under: Abraham Heschel, History, Israel

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"When you whitewash your home, leave a small patch bare to remind you of the Temple’s destruction! [Tisha B”Av] " ~~ Talmud, Bava Batra

Filed Under: History, Holidays, Home and Family, Israel, Talmud, Bava Batra

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"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. " ~~ Golda Meir

Filed Under: Golda Meir, History, Israel

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"Draw from the past, live in the present, work for the future!" ~~ Abraham Geiger

Filed Under: Abraham Geiger, Business and Money, History, Life

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"As the generation, so the leader; as the leader, so the generation. " ~~ Talmud Yerushalmi, Sanhedrin

Filed Under: Government, History, Leadership, Talmud Yerushalmi

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"Ages employed in making history have no time for studying it." ~~ Solomon Schechter

Filed Under: History, Solomon Schechter

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