The importance of the speech in the first years of the establishment of the state on its part served as a symbol and role model for the Zionist movement. The willingness to fight to the bitter end against endless odds for personal and national freedom touched very deep veins in a generation that personally knew the heroes of Tel Hai, the Warsaw Ghetto...
The annual memorial service for Yitzhak Rabin is the moment when we stop a little, remember Rabin the man, the leader. And we also look at ourselves, at Israeli society, at its leadership, at the state of the national mood, at the state of the peace process. From our place as private individuals, in front of the great national processes. Not easy …
How you have felt, O men of Athens, at hearing the speeches of my accusers, I cannot tell; but I know that their persuasive words almost made me forget who I was - such was the effect of them; and …
Vice President Johnson, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Chief Justice, President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, President Truman, reverend clergy, fellow citizens, we observe today not a victory of party, but a celebration of freedom—symbolizing an end, as well as a beginning—signifying renewal, …
You don't need to study the classics to be a good speaker. Amnon Yitzchak, the well-known (infamous?) convert likes to tell how ignorant he is of speeches by Aristotle or Churchill, or even Ben-Gurion. On the other hand, it really doesn't hurt and some speakers I know also...
The importance of the speech Sometimes the speech determines the size of the hour, and sometimes the time determines the size of the speech. There was nothing special about the date chosen for Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech - but the speech made the day unforgettable. And vice versa,…
Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Dick Durbin. You make us all proud Tonight is a particular honor for me because, let's face it, …
David's Lamentation gained a strong reputation among the gay community as David's gay-erotic confession about his fallen friend Jonathan. Although much of the theory stems from ignorance (the phrase "the beloved and pleasant", for example, does not refer to the relationship between David and Jonathan at all, it actually speaks of Jonathan and his father Shaul) there is no...
In 1956 Moshe Dayan delivers a eulogy for a member of Kibbutz Nahal Oz ('Gaza Encirclement') who was murdered by infiltrators from Gaza. In today's terms, this is a speech in a slightly high language, but at the time it was considered very direct, very simple, and an example of the new Hebrew of the age. Politically, in a speech...
Yitzhak Rabin's speech was delivered at the Mount Scopus campus of the Hebrew University immediately after the end of the Six Day War and was its concluding message. The event of the speech was the awarding of an honorary doctorate to Rabin on behalf of the Hebrew University as the representative of the army in the war. To a large extent constituted…
The Jewish people arose in the Land of Israel, where their spiritual, religious and political image was shaped, where they lived the life of a state commune, where they created national and all-human cultural assets and bequeathed to the entire world the eternal book of books. After the people were exiled from their country by force of arms, they kept their allegiance to it in all the lands of their dispersion,...
Vice President Johnson, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Chief Justice, President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, President Truman, reverend clergy, fellow citizens, we observe today not a victory of party, but a celebration of freedom—symbolizing an end, as well as a beginning—signifying renewal, …
One of the worst speeches ever made, which caused the speaker much more harm than good, and which is simply a bad speech. The problems with the speech are that it is: too long, too messy, too belligerent, does not answer the fundamental question, ladies and gentlemen, for the past six months and more, my family, myself and my friends, in Israel...
The importance of the speech They tell about Winston Churchill, who was once asked how long it would take him to write a ten-minute speech. "About two weeks" he replied. really? And how long will it take him to prepare a one-hour speech? "Probably a week." So then, the questioner was confused, how long will it take...
I am happy to join you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand...
The importance of the speech in the first years of the establishment of the state on its part served as a symbol and role model for the Zionist movement. The willingness to fight to the bitter end against endless odds for personal and national freedom touched very deep veins in a generation that personally knew the heroes of Tel Hai, the Warsaw Ghetto...
Preparing a speech is seen as an artistic act - many imagine the great orator sitting on a couch in his office overlooking the city and writing the sweeping speech in one flow of self-confidence and deep conviction. It is possible that it actually works that way for them, I don't know - I have never been...
Preparing a speech that is presented from the script is a different art than preparing a speech on the spot - on the one hand the expectations and standards are different, and on the other hand the tools at our disposal are different. It is important for me to emphasize that reading a speech from the script requires a much greater amount of effort compared to...
Rhetoric is often defined as the art of speech and persuasion. According to a classic definition, this is an artistic activity that aims to derive aesthetic pleasure from speaking in front of the audience, its excitement and its persuasion. Nowadays, it is more common to see rhetoric as art rather than art (craft vs. art), that is, a collection of tools and techniques that allow...
Julius Caesar" is one of William Shakespeare's historical dramas (along with Hamlet Macbeth and others, but less tragic than them) and one of the dramatic climaxes of the play takes place immediately after the murder of Julius Caesar - the Roman crowd gathers and demands explanations for the murder. Two brilliant speakers stand up...
"Julius Caesar" is one of William Shakespeare's historical dramas (along with Hamlet Macbeth and others, but less tragic than them) and one of the dramatic climaxes of the play takes place immediately after the murder of Julius Caesar - the Roman crowd gathers and demands explanations for the murder. Two brilliant speakers stand up...
Universities usually invite intellectual and practical people to speak at the graduation ceremony of their students, and American universities try to make those speakers well-known and famous. Sometimes the result is rhetorical masterpieces like Harry Potter creator JK Rowling's Harvard graduation speech. Rowling opens…
"Julius Caesar" is one of Shakespeare's historical dramas and the speeches of Brutus and Antony are perhaps the pinnacle of William Shakespeare's political rhetoric. And one of the dramatic climaxes of the play takes place immediately after the murder of Julius Caesar - the Hormai crowd gathers and demands explanations for the murder. Crimson …
The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin on November 4, 1995 not only caused enormous damage to democracy and Israel's chances of integrating into the regional space, but also caused an outburst of sadness and grief that greatly affected anyone who came to mourn him (except, apparently, Ezer Weizmann). As an audience, the obituary…