Quotation from Asher Ginsberg “And if this be the Messiah: I do not wish to see his coming” — Nov. 18 1913
Russian Jewish writer and philosopher, in a letter written to Moshe Smilansky.
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- Ginsberg, Asher (Ahad Ha'Am) (1856-1927) ( 6 quotations )
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" Apart from the political danger, I can't put up with the idea that our brethren are morally capable of behaving in such a way to humans of another people, and unwittingly the thought comes to my mind: if it is so now, what will be our relation to the others if in truth we shall achieve at the end of times power in Eretz Yisrael? And if this be the Messiah: I do not wish to see his coming. "
Quoted by Hans Kohn Ahad Ha’am: Nationalist with a Difference: A Zionism to Fulfill Judaism in Smith, Gary (ed.): Zionism: The Dream and the Reality (New York, Harper and Row, 1974), pp. 31-32.
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