Page 21 - HaMizrachi Chanukah 2021 - USA

1955 1956 1956
American Mizrachi founds Bar-llan Israel wages the Sinai Campaign t_o ..-.~ Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik delivers a powerful speech
University in memory of Mizrachi end terrorist incursions into Israel an titled "Kol Dodi Dofek," describing the six miraculous events
leader Rabbi Meir Bar-llan remove the Egyptian blockade of Eilat accompanying the establishment of the State of Israel

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My heart; 'tis an image of multitudinous feelings.

Etched - in the trials and the toil of chalutzim;
in the b~ood ofEuropeanJews.

Dead and dying; in Israel's historical redemption in my day.

Israel once again a Jewish Homeland; a sanctuary of G-d.

Now sending forth its courageous message of renewed faith,
reborn hope for a new life.

"Arise, Israelites, exiles; beseech worthiness of this great redemption.

Teach and live anew the precepts of a G-d fearing people."

Yea, we fought lest we betray our past leaders, our freshly-buried martyrs.

Israel must heroically symbolize the triumph of Right over evil might.

Structures for living, for learning, for labor, for worship; must rise

Resplendent with the boundless joy and pride of a nation rededicated.

And yesterday's heritage, today's sacrifice, must bring tomorrow's, Glory.

Efface, oh Israel the spectre of two thousand empty, tragic Galut years.
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Live on, oh Israel, in Divine fulfillment of an historic Desttny.,