HaRav Moshe Hillel Hirsch Shilta: “We Are in the Middle of a War”
The Rosh Yeshiva opened his words regarding what he described as the “r’difas Lomdei HaTorah”:
“There is a very difficult matzav today. We are in a war, mamash a war. This is a very difficult inyan for the bochurim, and the bochurim have to understand that we are in a war.
In a time of war, sometimes there are things that are difficult, and there has to be mesirus nefesh for the war. It cannot be that everything continues exactly as usual when there is a war.”
“I am not referring to the war with Iran. I am referring to the war between us and those from within who are fighting against us.
This is what we have to be machnis into the feeling of the bochurim. And in order to win in this war, it is only through the Ribbono Shel Olam. There is no other way—only through the Ribbono Shel Olam.
And there is a klal, the Gemara in Shabbos says: HaKadosh Baruch Hu says, if I see that they want Me, then I want them; if they do not want Me, I do not want them. Middah k’neged middah.”
In strong words, rarely heard, HaRav Hirsch added:
“It is muttar to be mechaven in ‘V’lamalshinim al tehi tikvah…’ — ‘v’chol haresha k’rega toveid. If all of Klal Yisrael would be mechaven in this, HaKadosh Baruch Hu would do what needs to be done.”
