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This statement is noteworthy as it doesn’t mention that Hashem rescued them. Why does it say that Hashem “gave” the generation those heroes and leaders? At times the entire nation reaches the edge of despair and national suicide, when Judaism can no longer survive, Hashem bestows on the community individuals that change Jewish destiny. They are the redeemers. Such an individual understands the suffering of the individual and the community. Hashem addressed the Decalogue to such an individual.


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Rabbi Joshua Rapps attended the Rav's shiur at RIETS from 1977 through 1981 and is a musmach of Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yitzchak Elchanan. He and his wife Tzipporah live in Edison, N.J. Rabbi Rapps can be contacted at [email protected].