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...stemming from it, because outside of liberty there is no room for national consolidation, but out of a recognition of the things themselves, our place is none other than in the front lines, and we yield our places in the very first ranks to the sons of the entire nation, the majority. We withdraw our hands from the claim, which has no substance, to be leaders; we are but assistants, and this is according to the objective capacity of our people. In this land, we do not determine for ourselves, and we withdraw our hands from any claim to create the history of this people.

The field of our creation is within Judaism. We are servants to the Hebrew people and we want no other servitude. Here we do not instruct, here we do not lead the people to a misty future full of mysteries, and we do not rely on the goodwill of allies unknown to us, to whom we are not permitted to be slaves. Here we show the people a goal and then instruct them: You have no allies, if you are not for yourself—who will be for you? Your redemption is only in yourself, and no nation in the world will join in your war of redemption, believe only in yourself, count only your own powers, trust only your own will, and then—either they will follow you, or the fate of the vanquished will be fulfilled in you.

("The Jewish Standpoint", Diaspora and Integration, p. 117)

10. What is Spiritual Evacuation.

The concept of "exit" has sociological and geographical meanings; and is marked on the geographical sketch as mass emigration. But there is also a concept of a spiritual exit: an exit from the entirety of the spiritual life of non-Jews—from literature, history, politics—to do this as a matter of course, on one's own initiative, and not to wait until they eject us forcefully.

The idea is not new: from the day the war against assimilation began, we called for the integration of Jews, that they should depart from foreign peoples and return to their own vineyard. We always demanded that they cease to pursue...