The Restoration of Israel | Rabbi Meldola de Sola

A century before Zionism became conventional, an English-speaking Sepharadi rabbi in Montreal delivered a sermon of clarity and urgency.

Rabbi Aharon David Meldola de Sola (1853-1918) insists that Jewish restoration is a covenantal destiny, and that faith is not passivity. Jews must pray, and then organise; hope, and then build.

The Restoration of Israel brings this forgotten voice back to life in a richly annotated edition, pairing the sermon with a vivid account of Sepharadi pioneers whose longing for Zion was practical as well as poetic.

This edition also features an essay by Rabbi Shalom Morris of the historic S&P Bevis Marks Synagogue in London.