"Tradition must be a spring-board into the future, not an arm-chair for repose." ~~ David Ben-Gurion
"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
"A true Jew is distinguished by three characteristics: sympathy, modesty, benevolence." ~~ Sayings of the Fathers, 5:22
"The Jews are God’s stake in human history." ~~ A. J. Heschel
"When trouble comes into the world, Israel feels it first: when good comes, Israel feels it first, too." ~~ Midrash Lamentations R. 2:3
"Myrtle is sweet to the one who smells it, but bitter to the one who bites it; so Israel brings prosperity to those who grant it kindness, and depression to those who afflict it with evil." ~~ Midrash Esther R. 6:5
"When you whitewash your home, leave a small patch bare to remind you of the Temple’s destruction! [Tisha B”Av] " ~~ Talmud, Bava Batra
"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. " ~~ Golda Meir
"We accept this word ‘Jew’, ostensibly a term of abuse, and shall turn it into a title." ~~ Theodore Herzl
"I have set you for a light of the nations. " ~~ Isaiah (Yesha”yahu) 42:6
"Language is the key to the nation. " ~~ Chaim Nachman Bialik
"Our task today is harder than Moses’; he had only to deliver Israel from one Egypt, we must deliver it from many." ~~ Manachem Ussishkin
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