Our security has been diminished rather than enhanced as a result of the conquests in this war. - Yeshayahu Leibowitz

Most characteristic of the Halakhah is its lack of pathos.

The essence of Jewish faith is consistent with no embodiment other than the system of halakhic praxis.

Not every "return to Zion" is a religiously significant achievement: one sort of return which may be described in the words of the prophet: "When you returned you defiled my land and made my heritage an abomination" (Jeremiah 2:7).