Rabbi Mordechai Goldstein

“If we can build Mount Zion, build our Jewish youth up again, and give that vitalization, the rejuvenation that they need, they will be able to be an example — a moral example — for the whole world, to keep morality, justice, love, care, that the world is looking for, that the world is searching for the Jewish nation, for the Jewish state, to show them in the world. What is the Jewish people? What is the secrets of the Jew? We will show them it’s the Bible, it’s the Oral Law. Here it is! Not only it exists in words, but it exists in practice. And we are the ombudsman for the whole world, and we can stand without blemish, with morality, and justice, and care, and be a nation that’s different, and the nation that we’re supposed to be—that we’re designated by G-d to bring forth into the world. And that is what is meant, ‘From Mount Zion will come forth the Torah.’ The Diaspora Yeshiva is the most serious institution that can be, and we want to play that role.”