Thank God at these memorial ceremonies Jewish leaders were inspired to declare Never again while at the same time expressing the painful question Have they really learned? With great anguish and yet grave responsibility I must put this question before our leaders: Have we learned?
How can our leaders even think of uprooting Jews from their homes and communities in any part of Eretz Yisrael? Are Jewish homes in which three generations grew up to be destroyed? Are synagogues and yeshivas bastions of prayer and Torah study to be abandoned to our enemies God forbid?
No all this cannot happen. We are in the midst of the divine process of Jewish redemption. We are in the process of engagement engagement to our land engagement to our people and to our God engagement to our destiny. We pray that the God of Israel awaken again the natural instincts of Jewish faith and survival that will enlighten the minds of our people to the realities of Jewish life and help us overcome the fallacies of our government.
The multitudes of Jewish hearts at the demonstration in Jerusalem overflowing with the faith love and devotion to our people and our land conveyed a message of renewed hope and determination that burst forward in our national anthem Hatikva followed by the eternal truth of the song Am Yisrael Chai.