// JavaScript 	quotes Document


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// Set up the quote files to be used.
var theQuote = new Array() // do not change this
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// pattern below, adding to the array.

theQuote[0] = '<span class="quote">"Zion, many lands are beautiful, But no eye has seen the equal of thy beauty. I know not whether the skies bow to thee, Or whether thou ascendest to the skies."</span><br><span class="quoteauthor">&#151;Al Harizi, 13th century</span>';
theQuote[1] = '<span class="quote">"Through a historical catastrophe&#150;the destruction of Jerusalem by the emperor of Rome&#150;I was born in one of the cities in the diaspora. But I always deemed myself a child of Jerusalem, one who is in reality a native of Jerusalem".</span><br><span class="quoteauthor">&#151;S.J. Agnon, upon receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1966</span>';
theQuote[2] = '<span class="quote">"In the din and tumult of the age, the still small voice of Jerusalem remains our only music."</span><br><span class="quoteauthor">&#151;Israel Zangwill, 1921</span>';
theQuote[3] = '<span class="quote">"Without Jerusalem, the land of Israel is as a body without a soul."</span><br><span class="quoteauthor">&#151;Elhanan Leib Lewinsky (1857-1910), Hebrew writer and Zionist leader</span>';
theQuote[4] = '<span class="quote">"The value and virtue of the holiness of the Land of Israel are great and awesome beyond imagination."</span><br><span class="quoteauthor">&#151;Rabbi Nachman of Breslov</span>';
theQuote[5] = '<span class="quote">"Prayer, devotion, concentration on Israel&#150;all this was insufficient for the Jew. <b>The dust of the Land of Israel is holiest</b>, he would say, and one therefore had to go there."</span><br><span class="quoteauthor">&#151;Rabbi Benjamin J. Segal, Returning, the Land of Israel as a Focus in Jewish History</span>';
theQuote[6] = '<span class="quote">"My heart is in the East and I am at the edge of the West. The how can I taste what I eat, how can I enjoy it? How can I fulfill my vows and pledges while Zion is in the domain of Edom, and I am in the bonds of Arabia? It would be easy for me to leave behind all the good things of Spain: it would be glorious to see the dust of the ruined shrine".</span><br><span class="quoteauthor">&#151;Yehuda Halevi (c. 1075-1141) Medieval philosopher and poet, leading figure in Spanish Jewry&#8217;s Golden Age</span>';
theQuote[7] = '<span class="quote">"When a man is granted the privilege of entering the Land of Israel) a totally new soul descends upon him, mixing with his own soul; in the first night that he sleeps in the Land of Israel, two souls ascend on high, but only the new one returns."</span><br><span class="quoteauthor">&#151;Rabbi Avraham Ben-Mordechai Azulai, Kabbalist and immigrant in the early seventeenth century</span>';
theQuote[8] = '<span class="quote">"The love of Hadassah is entwined upon my heart While I am within the Golah [Diaspora], my steps heavy laden. If I but had permission I would ascend and get myself there Within the gates if Zion that are so glorious"</span><br><span class="quoteauthor">&#151;Shalom Shabazi (1619-1680), great Yemenite Jewry poet</span>';
theQuote[9] = '<span class="quote">"You&#8217;re shaking. So am I. It&#8217;s because of Jerusalem, isn&#8217;t it? One doesn&#8217;t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That&#8217;s one of its mysteries."</span><br><span class="quoteauthor">&#151;Elie Wiesel, A Beggar in Jerusalem, 1970</span>';
theQuote[10] = '<span class="quote"> "However, in Israel, there rests within the natural soul of the nation the Divine quality, a thirst for knowledge and a perceptiveness of God&#8217;s presence ...This is the essence upon which life is based...the desire to come close to God."</span><br><span class="quoteauthor">&#151;Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook</span>';

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var whichQuote = Math.round(Math.random()*(p-1));
function showQuote(){
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