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…Automobiles are useful, but to pave the ancient Land of Israel with concrete for —the Trans-Israel Highway that no one needs, that is idolatry. The Temple was destroyed by fire; will the Land be destroyed with cement? The first "eicha," "ayekka," (Where are you?) arose from the human race's misuse of its new learning, its eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Distinctions and Divisions. Can we stop short before the destruc- tion itself is upon ...…
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