Occupation: Essayist Birth: August 18, 1856 Death: January 2, 1927
If this be the Messiah, then I do not wish to see his coming.
[But if things continue the way they are] ...the society that I envision, if my dream is not just a false notion, this society will have to begin to ….
We are used to thinking of the Arabs as primitive men of the desert, as a donkey-like nation that neither sees nor understands what is going around i….
The right place for the League of Nations is not Geneva or the Hague, Ascher Ginsberg has dreamed of a Temple on Mount Zion where the representatives….
What is national freedom if not a people’s inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history?.
More than Israel has kept the Sabbath, the Sabbath has kept Israel..
This Moses, I say, this man of old time, whose existence and character you are trying to elucidate, matters to nobody but scholars like you..
More than the Jews have kept Shabbat, Shabbat has kept the Jews..
We can't ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation..
Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind..
The less their ability, the more their conceit..