I gladly accede to your paper's request that I should address an appeal to the Jews of Hungary on behalf of Keren Hajessod. The greatest enemies of the national consciousness and honor of the Jews are fatty degeneration-by which I mean the unconsionableness which comes from wealth and ease-and a kind of inner dependence on the surrounding Gentile world which has grown out of the loosening of the fabric of Jewish society. The best in man can only flourish when he loses himself in a community. Hence the moral danger of the Jew who has lost touch with his own people and is regarded as a foreigner by the people of his adoption. Only too often a contemptible and joyless egoism has resulted from such circumstances. The weight of outward oppression on the Jewish people is particularly heavy at the moment. But this very bitterness has done us good. A revival of Jewish national life, such as the last generation could never have dreamed of, has begun. Through the operation of a newly awakened sense of solidarity among the Jews, the scheme of colonizing Palestine, launched by a handful of devoted and judicious leaders in the face of apparently insuperable difficulties, has already prospered so far that I feel no doubt about its permanent success. The value of this achievement for the Jews everywhere is very great. Palestine will be a center of culture for all Jews, a refuge for the most grievously oppressed, a field of action for the best among us, a unifying ideal, and a means of attaining inward health for the Jews of the whole world.