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Hadar: Why do they slumber yet know, to crown me - strengthen yourself to clear your path - your face and its shadows...

Hadar is for the scions of royalty in heart, eternity, its master: seek the law of a free man upon myself,

Haughty before officers, humble before the faint of heart, for so he is sharp to the rock-heart of his enemies:

Golber – a thing to exchange. Remove freely with permission.

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E. WHAT IS BETAR?

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...Now only one thing is clear to me: Betar is not a "company" [military unit], nor is it a "school," nor a "military"; for it contains all three of these elements together, but it has even more than that. It has the "secret" that is a sign in every creation, it has a special "Shekhinah" [divine presence], that perhaps even in the future will not be realized in life in all its details, but will remain before us as a goal for the heart to which we will aspire: as an ideal of a young Hebrew person who expresses in his personality the full value of three concepts: "Man," "Hebrew," "Youth" – humanity, Jewishness, youth. Indeed, like the generation that is about to descend from the stage in a few years, I will not see the end of this ascent, but according to what I see even now – I hereby say: "Blessed is He who has brought me to this honor, that I may merit to stand at the head of the Betar movement."

/From the lecture at the Regional Command Council in Warsaw in the year 1933./

The role of Betar is utterly simple, and yet very difficult: to create that Jewish "horse" that the nation needs, in order to establish the state of the Jews faster and better.