“To save the world the apostle had to suffer in and for it,
appear before the magistrates, subvert empires.
To redeem the Jewish people the rabbi had to enter into, share and
reshape the life of the community, deliberately to eschew the politics of
nations and patiently to submit to empires.”
-Jacob Neusner
Two thousand years of exile and wandering ended in 1948
when finally we could govern ourselves.
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