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3. Pioneering

A great thing we learned from Trumpeldor: he taught us to know what a "Halutz" (Pioneer) is. To translate this word as "vanguard," the first in the battle-line. But this translation does not entirely convey the deep meaning in this original word. And the Halutz is not a "strong-man" and he is also not a regular skilled worker, but rather he is: a man who has removed and cast off from his neck all that tied him to his Diasporic surroundings; a "man who has freed himself" from every connection, a man who will not listen to another person, but will act and listen only to the voice of his own blood.

The Hebrew Trumpeldor, a man who is not necessarily a worker, or necessarily a guard, but a man entirely devoted to only one idea, a man whose eyes are always raised to the development of his idea. And from this recognition stems all his status: today he is a worker, tomorrow - a guard, and perhaps - a commander - also a fighter. And a true fighter - with sword and spear.

A pioneer? You must forget your relatives and your friends, you shall forget your brother and your sisters, you shall renounce your father and your mother. But you shall forget everything, and remember only the "One" thing: your people and your land. And then "the pioneers will know" what they are to the people and what the people are to them.

4. Mobilization

Behold a wonder: sometimes a thing or an idea springs up by chance, and no one attributes great importance to it; however, after some time it is suddenly revealed that an important idea has arisen and the matter is immense. This is what happened with the idea of mobilization in the Betar platoons, at the conference inaugurated in Danzig in the year 1931. The idea of mobilization was accepted as a thoroughly practical scheme, from the later circles of Jabotinsky.