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bubbling currents of life that flow within us and our
great ambition for a full and complete national life!
And now we are drawing close to the day when this
side of the coin will be revealed before the eyes of the
world. The movement for the revival of the Hebrew
nation is bringing a revolution!

When the Hebrew nation returns to its youth, when
its young sons and daughters return to it, Hashem
will bless us “לֹ ּ כ ָּ ב,” with “everything,” with complete
wholeness. No longer will our evil inclinations rule
over us from within, with its war of wills and souls
torn asunder. And neither will “the angel of death”
and “worms and maggots” (Bava Batra 17a) attack us
from without. Then the younger generation will know
to honor their “elderly” traditions and add their own
links to the golden chain of our nation’s history. And
one nation will arise, the Hebrew nation, the “daugh-
ter whose name was ba-kol (לֹ ּ כ ָּ ב)” (Bava Batra 16b).
And the daughter of Avraham Avinu will hear the voice
that calls out to her: “Listen, O daughter, and con-
sider, and incline your ear; forget your people” – forget
the new people that you acquired and “your father’s
house,” the foreign stepfather that you took for your-
self (Tehillim 45:11). “Go forth from your land,” from
the land of your exile that you made into your own,
from your “homeland” to which your navel is tied, and
“from your father’s house” which is bound up with
the impurities of the lands of foreign nations. “Go
unto the land that I will show you,” to your land, “so
the king shall desire your beauty” (Tehillim 45:12), to
“make you beautiful in the world” (Bereishit Rabbah 39).
The Hebrew nation will return to its land, to the land
of its fathers, and build there its home, a center of
culture to bring beauty to the world. And “instead of
your fathers shall be your sons, whom you will make
princes in all the land… therefore shall the nations
praise you, forever and ever” (Tehillim 45:17–18).

 Translation by Rabbi Elie Mischel, from Rav Yitzchak
Nissenbaum, HaYahadut HaLeumit, 63–66 (1920, Warsaw). ilanblock.com

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