With Apologies to Martin Luther King, Jr.

I am not unmindful that some of you reading this are dealing with some of the greatest trials and tribulations of your lives in these difficult economic times. Some of you live in areas where your quest - the quest for financial

It is a dream deeply rooted in Torah and G-d's mitzvot.

freedom - has left you battered by the storms of foreclosure and staggered by the winds of crisis after crisis. You are now among the veterans of creative suffering.

But now is the time for change. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to Teaneck, to Los Angeles, to Chicago - knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. It can change only by you deciding to make it change.

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in Torah and G-d's mitzvot.

I have a dream that one day, the Jews of this nation will rise up and live out their true mission in life - to serve HaShem in His land, the Land of Israel.

I have a dream that one day, on the red hills of the Judean desert, the sons of former Americans and the sons of Israeli-born Jews will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood and share each other's dreams.

I have a dream that one day even the great states of New York, California and Illinois, with their large Jewish populations, states sweltering with the heat of Galut, sweltering with the heat of Chutz La'Aretz, will be transposed in the Land of Israel, and help turn their new-found communities into oases of freedom from the long, difficult exile.

I have a dream that my three daughters will live in the Land of Israel, where they will not be judged by what their husbands and sons will wear on their heads, but rather what knowledge will be in their heads.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the L-rd shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together." (Yeshayahu 40:4-5)

This is our hope, and this is the faith with which I and my family move to Israel.

With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of Galut a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able

If Israel is to be a great nation, then this must become true.

to transform the jangling discords of differing ideologies into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to stand up against exile together, knowing that we will be free one day to serve HaShem in our homeland, the Land of Israel.

And if Israel is to be a great nation, then this must become true.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom from the chains of Galut to break forth, when we let this new-found freedom ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of HaShem's children - black hat and kippah serugah, Agudah and Mizrachi, Chasidim and Misnagdim - will all be able to join hands and recite the words of the our sincerest form of belief in G-d:

Shema Yisrael, HaShem Elokeinu, HaShem Echad!