Ahad Ha'am Quotes

More than the Jews have kept Shabbat, Shabbat has kept the Jews.

What is national freedom if not a people’s inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history?

More than Israel has kept the Sabbath, the Sabbath has kept Israel.

If this be the Messiah, then I do not wish to see his coming

The less their ability, the more their conceit.

This Moses, I say, this man of old time, whose existence and character you are trying to elucidate, matters to nobody but scholars like you.

We can't ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation.

Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind.