This Moses, I say, this man of old time, whose existence and character you are trying to elucidate, matters to nobody but scholars like you. (Ahad Ha'am)

This Moses, I say, this man of old time, whose existence and character you are trying to elucidate, matters to nobody but scholars like you.

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