The Doctrine of Beitar

Girded through the wheels. There are lions, and when a parade of beautiful flags passes in the street, they cannot restrain their spirit: they stick their heads out even further, stick out their hands and shout: Pffff... Pffff... Comrades? Us too! – What the 'S' is – doesn't matter. It could be Marx, Lenin, Gandhi, tomorrow maybe Mussolini, Hitler, a field that must be something not our own, something broader, something universal. Old and known moods – we are already Europeans, and we have even seen Kafka. Anyone who sits on the windowsill of his imagination and peeks his head out every time and returns again – will eventually fall and remain in the window, whole or with his limbs crushed – that is then his disaster or his fortune, but he will not remain with us. The first beginnings in the first revelation – the measure by which we recently settled into the armchair, also bore the garb of the Hebrew language, they too circled within past-days and not around the matters and the foundation: but their intention was for duties, to return them to the air of their freedom – and only to the air of the seas: Assimilation: In general, even this potential distance and space – is a rock for the intelligent soul. Such a demand has the power to always expose much, and until now, it is true that we do not feel this at all, that among the Gentiles – everything is spacious and beautiful and will remain so for a long time yet, perhaps forever, and not only do the facts of their compromise shine among them, but sometimes their ideals also declare, working more shades of the rainbow than any type, in any case, according to the taste of that man, who is influenced by its breadth and its universality. And its tattered flags.

The enemy is alive. A tendency to adapt our thoughts and our horizons not to the needs of the Jewish people and its development, but specifically to the ideological fashion from the outside – this tendency, in which the root and beginning of assimilation is hinted, lurks for our children from every remote corner, from every— they teach it and use it in Yiddish and in Hebrew. In Jewish youth organizations that bear national and ideological names even in the Land of Israel. For such a thing can happen anywhere: it does not matter, it will always end – alone, and this always, always – alone. Not every act of conscious suicide is expressed specifically by a gunshot, God forbid, and the path through the abyss of abysses does not always lead to the same conclusion – a life that ends uselessly. Not my people and not...