Minister Meir Porush paid a visit to the home of Maran Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch, one of the Rosh Yeshiva of Slabodka, and during the visit, a conversation unfolded between the minister and the Rosh Yeshiva, centering on the grave situation currently facing Eretz Yisroel. Porush asked Rav Hirsch about the challenges surrounding the ongoing war and the looming gezeirah of forced conscription.
In the conversation, Porush asked, “What will be with our situation?”
Rav Hirsch replied, “Hashem will help. What can we say? We have no one to rely upon except Avinu Shebashomayim. That is clear in such a situation. The entire Eretz Yisroel is in a terrible state.”
Porush noted, “But since the founding of the state, there has not been a situation like this for the chareidi community.”
“That’s true,” Rav Hirsch agreed. “There has never been a situation like this — not for the chareidi community and not for Eretz Yisroel.”
Porush continued, “What will be? We need a great miracle.”
Rav Hirsch responded, “Miracles are possible. Hashem will help.”
“Amein, may it be so,” Porush added.
One of those present interjected, “We don’t rely on miracles.”
Porush responded, “We are permitted to hope for miracles.”
Rav Hirsch continued, “There is also the path of derech hateva — natural means. Part of the situation is that they [the government and others] are under pressure. They are truly afraid of what will happen when things start to collapse. Everything can be overturned through natural means.”
Porush remarked, “From what I understand, it must not end without us defeating them — Hamas — without succeeding in subduing them and changing the situation. It must not end with us bending to them, Heaven forbid.”
Rav Hirsch answered, “It could happen naturally that they will soften. A miracle can happen through natural means — that they will naturally be ready to soften.”
The Rosh Yeshiva also added, “There is a natural path: if Iran is destroyed, then everything will collapse naturally in its wake.”
Porush shared an anecdote: “Today I told someone from Vizhnitz in Haifa that I remember during the Second Lebanon War, the Rebbe fled to Yerushalayim. Today, when they say that in the future Yerushalayim will spread until Damascus, it means that the tranquility of Yerushalayim will extend even to Haifa — because there will be no more Nasrallah and Hezbollah.”
Rav Hirsch concluded with a hopeful note: “When there will be calm from Iran and Lebanon, Damascus, too, will become as peaceful as Yerushalayim.”
{Matzav.com Israel}