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foreign land is only temporary, and that his his suffering with the “comfort of Zion and protects its spiritual wealth and its national
entire goal and longing for the future is to Jerusalem.” language and literature – certainly we, the
return and settle in Eretz Yisrael, the land ancient people of the book, must preserve
to which he is bound with all his heart and When we reflect upon the chapters of our our spiritual heritage and our national lan-
soul. This powerful and eternal attachment history that were written with Jewish guage of Hebrew, so that it is not forgotten.
blood, we see that our forefathers were
of our people to the Land of our fathers always free men, even amidst their servi- The language of our forefathers escorted
is the very reason the Hebrew nation is tude. This places an obligation upon us, our people when we dwelled in our Land
eternal. For in this connection the nation today, to ensure that we do not become and comforted us through generations of
finds the hidden and exalted power that slaves amidst our freedom. Now, as the sun exile. Now it must be the language of our
strengthens, unifies and binds its people of freedom rises over the entire world, we rebuilding, which will escort us and bring
together in all the lands to which we have must not lose our national treasures and us to our redemption, to the true and ever-
been scattered. With this strength, the Jew, our spiritual freedom, which earlier gen- lasting “time of our freedom”!
the eternal wanderer, can pass through the erations kept safe from harm during even
heavy and long exile, holding the staff of the darkest hours of our history – treasures
wanderers in his hand without finding rest that preserved us and carried us until this
day…
for his weary feet or comfort for his sighing
soul. And as he is pursued by every nation Now, at this hour of freedom, as the chains
and considered a foreigner in every land, of servitude are breaking all over the
he strengthens and comforts himself in world, and every nation under its own flag

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