The Keren Ha-Yesod Book: Colonisation Problems of the Eretz-Israel (Palestine) Foundation Fund (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Palestine Foundation Fund

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ISBN 10: 0484091107 ISBN 13: 9780484091107

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Excerpt from The Keren Ha-Yesod Book: Colonisation Problems of the Eretz-Israel (Palestine) Foundation Fund

But it would be a mistake to think that the Keren ha-yesod is only an instrument for collecting money. It is, first of all, an idea, or an amalgama tion of two essential ideas. The first is the Ma'eser pringiple - a return to one of the oldest and momaififul of Jewish traditions, that of the Tithe. One-tenth at least of all you possess must go to, the Treasug of the Nation foltjgglgbir-qlof our and. His must be done in spite of the world's Ema-ail crisis, of the low rates of exchange, of the terrible disasters in Eastern Europe. In spite of all, one-tenth at least of all you own and earn belongs to Palestine. This is demanded of every Jew, Zionist or non-zionist. No Jew has done his duty until he has paid the Ma'aser. This is the Old Jewish law, and this is the law of the great historic moment our generation has to face. If it needs revision in defer ence to the modern principle of progressive taxation, this object must be attained by increasing the tax 011 the rich, not by lowering that on the poor. It is a hard law, but the Jewish people will have to enforce It upon every one of its members-_or 'to break down. The Ma'aser call is the expression of the unprecedented effort imposed upon us by this unpre cedented hour of Israel's history.

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