The Jewish Wisdom Database

I will make of you a great nation.

You are a holy people unto the Lord your God.

Israel is my son, My first-born.

The portion of the Lord is his people.

Can a woman forget her nursing child? Yes, even these may forget, but I will not forget you.

I will betroth you unto Me for ever.

Thou hast loved us, taken pleasure in us, and exalted us above all tongues. Thou hast sanctified us by Thy commandments, brought us near to Thy service, and called us by Thy great and holy Name.

I have loved you with an everlasting love.

To hate Israel is to hate God...To rise against Israel is to rise against God...To help Israel is to help God.

I will take you to me for a people and I will be to you a God.

I have set you apart from the peoples that you should be Mine.

Whoever adopts these principles belongs to Israel, regardless of his national or racial origin.

It is in no arrogant temper that we claim to be the chosen people. We thereby affirm, not that we are better than others, but that we ought to be better.

How odd of God to choose the Jews.

The destiny of God rests on the shoulders of Israel.

The world depends on Israel's piety.

Israel's mission is...to realize its ideals on its own soil and in its own State.

God appeared unto Abram and said: 'Unto thy seed will I give this land.'

Stones in the Land of Israel are heavier than in other lands.

The Torah cannot assume perfection except in Israel.

Anyone who spreads an evil report about the Land of Israel, even if it be true, is a spy.

Living in Israel is itself an atonement for one's sins.

Residence in Israel is equivalent to the observance of all the Biblical precepts.

Sinning in Eretz Israel is worse than elsewhere...It is like rebellion right within the king's own palace.

Reside in Israel, even among a majority of idolators, rather than outside of Israel, even among a majority of Jews.