Wake and bestir thee, for come is thy light!
Up! With thy shining the world shall be bright.
Sing! For thy Lord is revealed in His might—
Thine is the splendour His glory displays!
SOLOMON HALEVI ALKABETZ, 16th cent.
(Trans. S. Solis-Cohen.)
FAR more than Israel has kept the Sabbath, it is the Sabbath that has kept Israel.
ACHAD HA’AM, 1898.