Israelites

Israelites or the Children of Israel, were a Hebrew-speaking ethnoreligious group, consisting of tribes that lived in Canaan during the Iron Age that were said to descend from the Biblical patriarch Jacob (later renamed Israel).

Quotes

  • All the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
    • Exodus, 10.23.
  • May not the children of Israel find it necessary to derive their livelihood from one another!
    • Judah b. Ezekiel. Talmud: Yoma, 53b.
  • When the children of Israel came to the Red Sea, and Moses prayed long, the Holy One said to him: “My children are in trouble, the sea before them and the enemy behind them, and you stand here indulging in long prayers!”
    • Eliezer b. Hyrcanus. Mefalta, to Exod. 14.15.
  • The Lord said to Aaron: You shall have no inheritance in their land ... I am your portion and inheritance among the children of Israel.
    • Numbers, 18.20.
  • All the prophets complained of the silver and gold which went forth with the children of Israel from Egypt.
    • Akiba. Gen. R, 28.7.
  • It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever.
    • Exodus, 31.17.
  • Like dust, the children of Israel will be trodden; but as dust wears out even metal, so will Israel outlast the Powers.
    • Akiba. Gen. R, 41.9.
  • The self-restraint which Scripture imposed on the children of Israel in regard to Ammon, Moab and Seir [Deut. 2.5, 9, 19] carries a prohibition against all aggressive war.
    • Nahmanides, Sefer HaMitzvot, #47.
  • The Jew obtained a territory on the day he was imprisoned in these Jewries, and the Israelites lived since then exactly like a people that had a fatherland of its own.
    • Lazare, Antisemitism, (1892) 1903, p. 259.
  • Beloved are Israelites, for the Holy One encompassed them with precepts: tefillin on head and arm, fringes on clothes, mezuzot on door-posts.
    • Talmud: Menahot, 43b.
  • The Israelites are and have to remain a distinct nation, having essentially the prerogative of sanctifying life.
    • Manasseh b. Israel, Nishmat Hayyim, 1652.
  • Israelites, whose is the sonship, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the Law, the service, and the promises; whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ according to the flesh.
    • New Testament: Rom., 9.4f.
  • A true Israelite . . . looks upon all his property as only a means of doing what is pleasing in the sight of God.
    • S. R. Hirsch, Horeb, 1838, chapter 13.
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