offener bericht uber den colonisations- verein fur palastina - An open report by the Palestine Colonization Association - an early 'call' of the 'Eretz Yisrael Society' headed by Dr. Chaim Lurie - the Zionist visionary that preceded Dr. Theodor Herzl. Frankfurt 1864. Very rare.
Dr. Chaim Lurie was born in Frankfurt, a descendant of the Holy Aryans. Influenced by the Scriptures, the idea of hibat Zion began Influence him in a metastatic way. By combining different letters in the way of the mkubalim he calculated and found that the Mashiah would come in the late 1840s, and that by 1860 at the latest all Jews would be in the Land of Israel. Following this, he founded the "Yishuv Ha'aretz Company" in Frankfurt. However, as the sixties passed, traces of Mashiah were not yet known, the doubt crept into his heart that he had made a mistake in the calculation. Luria went deeper and deeper the Kabbalah of his Aryan father-in-law and found a hint that the Meshiah King would come only when one spirit arose in the Jews and one desired to return to the Land of Israel for and revive its land. This is how Dr. Luria came up with the idea of Hibat Zion, which dealt with advocating for the redemption of the lands of the Land of Israel, and for introducing the idea among the people. Dr. Lurie's "society" was the first to settle in Eretz Israel, which was founded among the Jews in the Diaspora.
The publication before us: Dr. Lurie was the first to publish this early "Kol-Koreh" about the great value of the idea of settling Eretz Israel and the great need to establish companies for the same purpose in every city and town, and thus preceded Theodor Herzl by more than 20 years. He distributed the same "Call" as a booklet, and it was written in the prophetic style of the prophets with quotations and notes in Hebrew about the hoped-for redemption and the coming of the Meshiah and the Land of Israel, taken from the Scriptures and the Talmud and the Midrashim and calls for immediate action for the redemption of the lands of the land.
[6] pages. German, and Hebrew. Stains. Slight tears in margins. Good condition.
