Not for his own Goluth but for the Goluth of the Torah does the Jew mourn. And must this morning die away, must the sorrow disappear, must these tears dry up if the nations become more humane and just, if they loosen the chains on the hands and feet of the Goluth-weary Israel, and an emancipated Israel steps into the company of non-Jewish states as a fully-privileged member? Will the Torah be any the less in exile for this? Will the “Goluth of the majesty of God” be brought to an end by this? … Or has it to endure new and harder trials, is it faced with new Goluth sufferings, is it threatened with a new and more painful and bitter exile?
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, "Av I," Collected Writings, Vol. I, p. 345.
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