It is not enough for a man to dwell in the Land of Israel, he must also pray to be free.

When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul.

But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.

If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.

At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere.

Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.

But perhaps the truth newly discovered is itself only temporary and when new discoveries are made these truths too will be abandoned. But one truth remains for ever, and that is the search for truth.