The New Man - Martin Buber

The Halutz is the new type of man born of the movement of Jewish renaissance. In him that movement finds its complete expression. The test of every national movement is its ability to produce this type of man, and his ability to control the forces of history and fulfill his historical task. Through his very personality he helps to effect a decisive change in the life of his people. His is a two-fold task: external liberation from the yoke of strangers, and inner liberation and recovery of spiritual independence, refusing to live on foreign cultures.