Israel – The Road to Full Redemption (Israel Eldad – 1961)

Israel – The Road to Full Redemption
by Dr. Israel Eldad

If there is a miracle, it does not lie in the fact that we overcame the English and the Arabs.  If there is a “miracle” it is in the fact that we overcame the Jews, or rather those among them who would not believe but mocked and set out to be “realistic,” who accustomed us to ask ourselves:  What more are we than dust and ashes?  The miracle is that in spite of this we succeeded in breaking through all the many exile shells and husks, through layers or barren and vain ideologies, and brought precious forces from the deeps of the Jewish soul and its capacities into the light of day. (16)

That is the dialectic of Jewish history:  Those who wish it are unable to bring it about, while those who are able to do not wish it.  (23)