Julius Israel Home Of Hope
Julius Israel Home Of Hope
By Julius Yahuda101Israel Home Of
Israel Home Of Hope
Was posted to my YouTube channel TheSergeant001 five years ago, was also posted
to my Yahuda101 channel, but YouTube censored that channel.
Israel is
the Jewish home of hope, the place where our people were born in the age of
Abraham and where, after the longest exile ever endured by a people, it was
reborn in our time. Narrated by Rabbi Sacks to mark Israel’s 60th anniversary
in 2008.
I added
all the pictures of which many I took during my two visits to Israel. I also
added a few songs of which I really like, and a tribute to a very good friend
who is no longer with us, my dear friend Miriam. In the middle of Part 6 is the interview my father had with the AETN (Arkansas Educational
Television Network) concerning his experiences while acting as an interpreter
for his commanding officer during the liberation of Dachau.
To mark
Israel’s 60th anniversary in 2008, the Rabbi Sacks produced a double CD –
“Israel – Home of Hope” – that used the power of words and music to tell the
extraordinary and inspiring story of the modern State of Israel. Israel is the
Jewish home of hope, the place where our people was born in the age of Abraham
and where, after the longest exile ever endured by a people, it was reborn in
our time. Proclaiming the State, on 14 May 1948, 5 Iyar 5708, David Ben Gurion
said: “The Land of Israel was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their
spiritual, religious and national identity was formed. Here they achieved
independence and created a culture of national and universal significance. Here
they wrote and gave the Bible to the world. Exiled from the Land of Israel the
Jewish people remained faithful to it in all the countries of their dispersion,
never ceasing to pray and hope for their return and the restoration of their
national freedom.” We pray for it still, for there has hardly been a day in
sixty years when the people of Israel have not lived without war or the fear of
war, terror or the fear of terror. Israel, brought into being three years after
the Jewish people stood eyeball to eyeball with the angel of death during the
Holocaust, is the Jewish people’s collective affirmation of life. Its existence
and achievements are living testimony to one of Judaism’s greatest messages to
humankind: the principled defeat of tragedy by the power of hope. And though
Israel was built by human hands, it is impossible not to sense beneath its
history, the hand of heaven. One sentence reverberated in my mind throughout
this project, a line from Hallel: ‘This is the Lord’s doing. It is wondrous in
our eyes.’ May the words and music of these CDs open our minds and lift our
hearts to the miracle of a land rebuilt, a people reborn, a promise fulfilled,
a destiny regained. Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks Adar II 5768 / March 2008
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