IDF & Police Have Outlived Their Usefulness

Two headlines caught my attention as I browsed through today's news. Both the IDF and the Israel Police are run by the Erev Rav Regime according to their perverted and corrupted worldview. It'll be a very happy day for Torah-minded people everywhere when it finally collapses.

Following Injury of Jew, IDF Slams Yesha Residents
The IDF Spokesman said that during clashes that erupted between Jews and Arabs Monday morning in Samaria, three Jews were wounded - two lightly and one severely. Also three Arabs were lightly injured.

The spokesman added that "the IDF views severely violent behavior toward the Palestinians and the security forces will not allow such conduct.”

Following the events, four Jewish residents were arrested.

Police Chief Promises to Guard Homosexual Parade
Police Commissioner, Dudi Cohen, confirmed the police's operational plan for the gay pride parade in Jerusalem Thursday during an extended meeting held in the presence of staff and district officers.

The Commissioner instructed the commanders to prepare for all scenarios, including special arrangements for the Haredi religious sector to prevent them from opposing the event.

Polls show most Jerusalem residents oppose the parade.

"A Small Peek Into the Future"

A message from Moishela to Am Yisroel
Yud Aleph Av 5770

The world as we know it is coming to an end. That is already very clear to most people. Strange things are happening in nature and clearly the world is moving ominously to the greatest world war Hashem Yishmor, the worst and most destructive war ever. As we know from the prophecies one third of the world will be completely destroyed without leaving even one small living creature, one third of the world will be very badly hurt and one third of the world including Eretz Yisroel will not be harmed.

Today we are standing on the threshold of the big bang. Nature as we call it has big surprises in store for us, big and frightening and devastating. We won't be able soon to call it nature because it will be obvious to all that it is directly coming from Hashem. Man will go to war with man, and that will also be a horrific war, beyond the belief of a regular human being. This is but a small peek into the future.

You ask, what can we do about it? Most people choose just to ignore it, and hope that the signs we are getting; the clear, clear signs we are getting from Shomayim will just disappear will evaporate as if it never was there. We want to go on with our Gashmiusdik lives as if nothing has happened, but we can not. Those Jews who want to survive must stop dead in their tracks and begin to make a Cheshbon HaNefesh. Hakodosh Boruch Hu has many times in our history brought upon Am Yisroel pain, suffering and death and some times in the most horrible ways. Why? Because His favorite son strayed from Him, and in order to save His first-born He had to punish him in order to bring him back to Truth. And today we live in a world of almost total lies. The Egel HaZahav is the main g-d (with a small "G") of Christian, Muslim and Jew alike.

There are B"H a few Jews left that still hang on with fierce determination to their Creator and His Torah. Most Jews that profess to be Orthodox or Ultra Orthodox are sure that they are hanging on to Hakodosh Boruch Hu, but in reality most are hanging on to the tail of the Egel HaZahav.

So what can we do? Every Jew must stop and search through his life and take out of his being with a tweezer all the Egel HaZahav that he has in side of himself and he must reject and renounce all the lies of the Olam Hazeh that he has become so fond of. He prefers Kosher vacations in Switzerland to sitting and learning and living a life of austere but true Yiddishkeit. He'd rather make elaborate Chasunas than bring his child to the Chupa after true Torah Chinuch. He'd rather be busy with superficial materialistic food and other entertainments (of course with Hechsherim) than be busy with Davening, with saying Tehillim, and crying and begging Hakodosh Boruch Hu to rebuild the Bais HaMikdosh and to bring Moshiach Tzidkainu. But my dear brothers and sisters who don't listen to my words, if you don't make a Cheshbon HaNefesh you will disappear for all eternity, Chas VeSholom. Because Hashem is destroying the world of lies, and is bringing out and spreading throughout creation the world of truth. A person who lives a life of lies can never live in the world of truth; cannot exist together with truth ,which is all encompassing .A Yid who has even one bit of a lie in him, who believes at all in any way in the lie, can not exist together with truth. Look what is happening in Eretz Yisroel. The Frum community is split in every way. All the way deep down split and broken into bits. Most of the Frum are enjoying today a level of Gashmius that they never had in the past. But this level of Gashmius is bought at a price, and that price is that we have sold our souls to the Egel HaZahav and its representative which is Medinas Yisroel(State of Israel). We have sold our children to the Sitra Achra by taking money from the Erev Rav to support our Chinuch, and they forced us to put into our curriculum poisonous lies, anti-Torah lies, and give it to our precious Temimusdik children as though it was truth.

The conflicts between Frum Yiden has become worse and worse. This group hates that group, that group hates this group, and all of these groups that are fighting against each other, are also filled with lies.

You have fathers against daughters, mothers against sons, husbands against wives, wives against husbands, and then you have the people who enjoy making this terrible situation, fueling it with fire, to keep it cooking.

Boruch Hashem, Hashem is obviously killing the Egel HaZahav, money is inflated, and getting more inflated, money is worth less and less, people are beginning to struggle very much to be able to pay for their Gashmiusdik lives. Many of the Charaidim are being hit very hard with this.
Chinuch has become a dangerous topic, the average Yid is realizing that something very wrong is going on in our schools, in our Yeshivas; that ideas from the Goyishe world have infiltrated into these once precious institutions. And worst of all the Erev Rav rules. The Erev Rav rules in the Medina. But also among the Charaidim, the Erev Rav rules. They rule in America, in the Frum world and in the Chiloni world. They rule in Europe in the Frum world and the Chiloni world. They rule all over the world. Wherever Jews are the Erev Rav rules, in both the non-Frum and the Frum community.

But this will not continue, and Hashem will very soon bring us to frightening situations. We are already becoming uneasy in our world. Hashem is doing this stage by stage so that the Jews who can understand, will begin really to understand. Stage by stage they will come to the truth. Hashem will save every soul that stood at Har Sinai, but not the Erev Rav. They stood back, they stood away, but every Jew who stood at Har Sinai will be saved. The ones who are closer to Hashem will suffer less, ones who are farther from Hashem will suffer more. However the Erev Rav, those Egyptians who supposedly took on Yiddishkeit, those Erev Rav that never really accepted Ol Malchus Shomyim, those Erev Rav will disappear forever.

Am Yisroel we are facing the hardest times that humanity has ever faced. The Goyim, Yishmaelim, Notzrim, all the Goyim will be punished for what they have done to Am Yisroel. And Am Yisroel will be purified, and made pristine. They will shine with a spiritual light that would differentiate between them and whichever Goyim are left.

They will be people of Truth and only Truth. There will be no lie. And the Goyim that are left after the Makos, after the Makos that will hit the world and its population. Those that are left will be righteous Goyim that will understand and accept the Truth as well.

Am Yisroel save yourself suffering, come back to Hashem, come back to Torah, come back to the true life, from morning till night only Hashem and his Torah. Most Yidden of today, feel that that's boring Chas Vesholam, but there are still Yidden, Boruch Hashem, that get up in the morning, say Modeh Ani, wash their hands, and from then on all through the day are trying with all their hearts and souls to fulfill all of Hashem's commandments. They are not bored, but it lifts them up to higher spheres spiritually, and makes them close to Hakodosh Boruch Hu. There is nothing more exciting and more fulfilling and more true in this world or in any world than being only Hashem's servant.

Am Yisroel, those that stood at Har Sinai, we are the seeds that are being planted for the future, to grow and to multiply and to fill the universe. Creation has not ended its continuing and every Yid will be part of it for all eternity.

"THOUGHTS ON COMFORT AND CONSOLATION"

by Roy S. Neuberger

B"H

Dear Friends:

Is there nechama? Can we realistically expect to experience comfort and consolation?

When I was twelve, my family took a trip to the eastern tip of Long Island. We wound up in the direct path of one of the most destructive hurricanes in recent history. We were staying in a big old hotel. You huddle inside for hours, wondering whether you will survive. Suddenly, it's "all over," and you are in the middle of a cloudless, placid, sunlit day. That's what you think, but you are in the eye of the storm! You believe it's all over, until suddenly the winds come back violently from the other direction and you are once again being clobbered by this ferocious storm, hoping you will survive.

Any comfort and consolation we feel today is like the eye of the storm.

We don't trust it. We are waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Realistic people in today's world know that we are living on the edge of the cliff, waiting in tension for events which will affect us mightily but over which we have no control. There is an overwhelming feeling of trepidation. Many people's lives are out of control. Society seems out of control. Events in the world at large are ominous.

And we talk about comfort and consolation?


We have to know, my friends, that nechama is real. We desperately need to cling with all our strength to the ancient truths which have sustained us since the days of our Father Abraham and our Mother Sarah. We need to keep reminding ourselves that we live "chutz min ha teva," not subject to the forces which bind the rest of mankind in an eternal cycle of slavery and mortality, "those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, shackled in affliction and iron." (Psalm 107) We are servants of the Eternal, and as such we are going to survive whatever terrible storms buffet this fragile planet. If we can remember that, we can survive.

Every day, we say powerful prayers that can keep us from succumbing to the cycle of mortality which haunts the world. "Hashem, our G-d and the G-d of our fathers ... accustom us to [study] Your Torah and attach us to Your commandments. Do not bring us into the power of error, nor the power of transgression and sin.... Let not the evil inclination dominate us. Distance us from an evil person.... Attach us to the good inclination and to good deeds and compel our evil inclination to be subservient to You." (Shacharis)


The Book of Deuteronomy (Sefer Dvarim) is frighteningly powerful. The prophetic passages literally describe the scene before our eyes, some forty-five hundred years later! "When you beget children and grandchildren and you will have been long in the land, you will grow corrupt and make a carved image ... and do evil in the eyes of ... your G-d. I call the heavens and the earth this day to bear witness against you that you will surely perish quickly from the land which you are crossing the Jordan to possess ..." (Deuteronomy 4:25-26)

Are the heavens and the earth not "bearing witness," my friends? When the storms rage and the sea boils, when the volcano spews and the ground shakes, are the heavens and the earth not following the commands of the One Who is all-knowing?

But listen to this!

"G-d will scatter you among the peoples and you will be left few in number among the nations where Hashem will lead you.... From there you will seek Hashem, your G-d, and you will find Him, if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. When you are in distress and all these things have befallen you, at the end of days, you will return unto ... your G-d and listen to His voice." (Deuteronomy 3:27-30)

My friends, is this not EXACTLY our world? Almost five thousand years ago, the Torah told us that we would someday be "scattered among the peoples," and that at "the end of days," in the midst of our "distress," we would experience a miraculous "return unto Hashem" and we would "listen to His voice"!

Has there ever been a time of such RETURN TO G-D? Have there ever before been so many baalai teshuva? There is NOTHING that anti-Torah forces and secular governments can do to stop it! Uncounted numbers of Jews are returning to G-d from "the Four Corners of the World"! This is fulfillment of prophesy! It is happening before our eyes!

HOW CAN ANYONE DENY THAT HASHEM IS PREPARING FOR THE FINAL REDEMPTION?

I am going to quote an extreme statement. I did not say this; it is from Gates of Emunah, by Rav Shimshon Dovid Pincus ZT"L: "We live in a modern world, but with all its technological advances ... the results are shockingly poor. Everything is put to use for the bad. The world was a more beautiful place without modern cameras and their streams of indecent images.... There is no modern invention that did not do harm to the world, without exception....

"One example... It used to be that when a Jew would desecrate Shabbos, it would be by stoking a fire or walking in the public domain carrying something in his pocket. Now, he gets in his car and drives. Every time he steps on the gas pedal he creates thousands of sparks per second. A single trip from New York to Baltimore causes more Shabbos desecrations than took place from the beginning of the world until the invention of the automobile!" (Page 273)

This is the world we are living in. This is the culture of Edom. It is not our culture. Ours is the world of Torah, pure and simple. That's how Hashem created the world, and mankind did nothing since Creation to improve upon it ... with one exception: when we live in the Sea of Torah, then we are doing what our Father in Heaven intended when He created the world. There is nothing else. That is all.

This is our job in the world.

This is our comfort. This is our consolation. This is our life!

"Nachamu, nachamu ami... Comfort, comfort My people, says your G-d. Speak to her and proclaim to her that her time of exile has been fulfilled, that her iniquity has been conciliated, for she has received from the hand of Hashem double for all her sins. A voice calls in the wilderness, 'Clear the way of Hashem, make a straight road in the plain, a highway for our G-d.' Every valley shall be raised and every mountain and hill shall be made low, the crooked shall become straight and the rugged a level low land. Revealed shall be the glory of Hashem and all flesh as one shall see that the mouth of Hashem has spoken." (Isaiah 40:1-5, Haftaras Va'eschanan).

Roy S. Neuberger

Truth is Still Stranger than Fiction

I have a feeling that no matter how fertile my imagination, it's probably still going to turn out to be much worse than we can even anticipate.

Large China oil spill threatens sea life, water

BEIJING – China's largest reported oil spill emptied beaches along the Yellow Sea as its size doubled Wednesday, while cleanup efforts included straw mats and frazzled workers with little more than rubber gloves.

An official warned the spill posed a "severe threat" to sea life and water quality as China's latest environmental crisis spread off the shores of Dalian, once named China's most livable city.

One cleanup worker has drowned, his body coated in crude.

"I've been to a few bays today and discovered they were almost entirely covered with dark oil," said Zhong Yu with environmental group Greenpeace China, who spent the day on a boat inspecting the spill.

"The oil is half-solid and half liquid and is as sticky as asphalt," she told The Associated Press by telephone.

Life Imitates Fiction More and More

Whale of a tale! 40-ton mammal lands on yacht

A South African couple was out sailing near the country's infamous Robben Island when a 40-ton whale breached and crash-landed on their yacht.

I'm halfway through a Sci-Fi thriller called "Swarms." It's touted to be a Creighton-esque story similar to The Day After Tomorrow only with the oceans. It was written in German in 2008 and was only recently released in English. It features whale attacks and methane explosions out of the deep prominently and like I said, it was written two years ago, but it reads like today's newspaper.

In addition to the whale story, there is a new post at Shirat Devorah called "What is Happening to Our Oceans?" which mentions penguins, dead fish and even a plague of seashells.

Is it just me or does it seem like we are living inside a disaster movie these days?

THE ORIGINAL 9/11

Counting from Tishrei, Av is the eleventh month on the Jewish calendar and in Eretz Yisrael, we place the day before the month. That makes Tisha b'Av the Jewish 9/11. I think it behooves us to read about and ponder upon the first Tisha b'Av...

"They returned from spying out the Land at the end of forty days. They went and came to Moshe and to Aharon and to the entire assembly of the Children of Israel...and brought back the report....

'We arrived at the Land to which you sent us, and indeed it flows with milk and honey, .... But ---the people that dwells in the Land is powerful, the cities are very greatly fortified, and we also saw there the offspring of the giant. Amalek dwells in the area of the south; the Hittite, the Jebusite, and the Emorite dwell on the mountain; and the Caananite dwells by the Sea and on the bank of the Jordan.'

Calev silenced the people toward Moshe and said, 'We shall surely ascend and conquer it, for we can surely do it!'

But the men who had ascended with him said, 'We cannot ascend to that people for it is too strong for us!' They brought forth to the Children of Israel an evil report on the Land that they had spied out, saying, 'The Land through which we passed, to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitant! All the people that we saw in it were huge! There we saw the Nephilim, the sons of the giant from among the Nephilim; we were like grasshoppers in our eyes, and so were we in their eyes!'

The entire assembly raised up and issued its voice; the people wept that night. All the Children of Israel murmured against Moshe and Aharon, and the entire assembly said to them, 'If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness! Why is Hashem bringing us to this Land to die by the sword? Our wives and our young children will be taken captive! Is it not better for us to return to Egypt?'

So they said to one another, 'Let us appoint a leader and let us return to Egypt!'

Moshe and Aharon fell on their faces before the entire congregation of the assembly of the Children of Israel.

Yehoshua, son of Nun, and Calev, son of Yefuneh, of the spies of the Land, tore their garments. They spoke to the entire assembly of the Children of Israel, saying, 'The Land that we passed through, to spy it out---the Land is very, very good! If Hashem desires us, He will bring us to this Land and give it to us, a Land that flows with milk and honey. But do not rebel against Hashem! You should not fear the people of the Land, for they are our bread.

'Their protection has departed from them; Hashem is with us. Do not fear them!'

But the entire assembly said to pelt them with stones---and the glory of Hashem appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the Children of Israel.

Hashem said to Moshe, 'How long will this people provoke Me, and how long will they not have faith in Me, despite all the signs that I have performed in their midst? I will smite them with the plague and annihilate them, ....

...and the people mourned exceedingly."

Read the entire unabridged account in Parashat Shelach, Bamidbar (Numbers), chapter 14.

The evil report brought by the spies inspired an even greater sin by the people. The spies spoke lashon hara against the beautiful gift of the choicest Land that Hashem was presenting to us. But the people took that and turned it into lashon hara against Hashem! They falsely accused Him of bringing them to Eretz Yisrael to kill them and sell them back into slavery!

If they could really believe such a thing of Hashem after all the tender loving care He had lavished upon them throughout the Egypt, Sinai and Wilderness experiences, even to taking them back after committing the spiritual equivalent of adultery on the wedding night with the golden calf... After forty years, they still did not believe in or trust Hashem.

This is the foundation of everything that is wrong with us. If we can correct this flaw, we will be ready for Mashiach and the complete redemption and the end of all future 'Tisha b'Avs.'

Have a successful fast. It should accomplish all the spiritual work it is intended to do.

"Torah, Tefilla and Tears"

by Roy S. Neuberger

Dear Friends:

The second paragraph of the Shema contains a terrible prophesy of punishment and exile. It begins after the word, "v'savata... and you will be satisfied." It is perhaps dangerous to be satisfied.

"Hear, O heavens and give ear, O earth, for Hashem has spoken: children have I raised and exalted, but they have rebelled against Me. An ox knows his owner and a donkey his master's trough; Israel does not know, My people does not perceive..." (Isaiah 1: 2-3; Haftaras Dvarim)

My friends, I believe that we are deluding ourselves in trying to find satisfaction in pursuing the goals of Western culture. G-d is smashing those idols left and right. Is it an accident that Western Culture is crumbling before our eyes?

"Fortunate is he who is always fearful; he who hardens his heart shall fall to misfortune" (Proverbs 28:14) is referring to the attitude of the Jewish People at the time of the destruction of the Temple. People had a sense of security because of their "great affluence and serenity, whereas instead "they should have been fearful and concerned...." (Tosfos on Gittin 55b as cited in the Introduction to "Churban and Golus" by Rav Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg Shlita"h)
When will we learn? Is not every individual in pain, every family in agony? If not from my own pain, then from my friend's pain! This week alone, two families in our community were sitting shiva for their children! And this is a drop in the ocean of tears!

On our flight back from Israel last week, I looked out at the endless ocean! Miles deep, stretching on as far as the eye can see, even from 38,000 feet! How many drops are in the ocean? Fewer than the tears of our People?

My friends, what are we to do?

I have mentioned before the words of the Chofetz Chaim ZT"L regarding the "End of Days" (quoted by Rabbi Mattisyahu Salomon Shlita"h): There will be three wars. The first was the First World War. The second (predicted by the Chofetz Chaim before his death in 1933) was to be the Second World War. And the third (assuming that we do not do teshuva before then) will usher in the Final Redemption. The Chofetz Chaim said, however, that the third war would be different from the first two, in that the Angel of Death would in the final war have no power to harm righteous people! And what constituted a righteous person? One who sticks close to G-d and His Torah and who perceives the utter emptiness of the surrounding culture!

Let us try to comprehend this!

I have often experienced this: I have terrible anguish. Something is tearing me apart. Or, on the other hand, I am distracted by an infinite number of obligations, and my mind is going over all the minutiae that I "cannot forget to do." Or perhaps I am filled with anger at the guy next to me who is screaming out his prayers. The last thing I can do is concentrate on my prayers or my learning! And then, by some act of will and sanity, I just say goodbye to my evil inclination. I force myself to concentrate completely on my prayers or my learning. I plunge into the sea of Torah, the words of the Talmud.

My friends, I am not talking about meditating or "feeling good."

I AM TALKING ABOUT SUBMERGING ONESELF IN THE WORLD OF TRUTH! Shema Yisroel, Hashem Elokainu, Hashem Echad!

There is only ONE PLACE where our fate is decided! Not two, G-d forbid, or two million. Nowhere else is there Reality in this universe than in sticking like glue to G-d and His Torah!

Rav Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg writes, "It is impossible to have a casual attitude to Torah. Success in Torah will spring forth from a vibrant, industrious attitude and drive, and - if not - the result is DESTRUCTION! Spiritual collapse is not simply failure; it is devastation... collective havoc!" (Churban and Galus, p. 37) "No other weapon will succeed against the evil inclination except the learning of Torah." (Quoting Rav Elchanan Wasserman ZT"L, p. 49)
My friends, I like steak. I really do. I like vacations. I like driving down the road with the wind in my face and looking at the beautiful sights. We live in a society that tells us we should indulge our desires, that we "owe it to ourselves" to live life to the "fullest." Go shopping. "Just do it." Entertainment! Sports! Indulge yourself; it's good for you!

NO! NO! NO!

The game is over! We cannot pretend any longer that we can be partly in the world of Western culture and partly in the world of Torah!

Rav Scheinberg's book has three chapters: Our Torah, Our Prayers and Our Tears.

Let us plunge into Torah, submerging ourselves into the depths and climbing the heights toward Heaven. Let us dive into our prayers "with all our heart and all our soul and all our resources."

Men, put your tallis over your head. Women, put your siddur in front of your face! No one will see us except our Father in Heaven when we "shed streams of water at the shattering of my people. My eye will flow and will not cease ... until Hashem looks down and takes notice from heaven!" (Eichah 3:48-50)
"Let him put his mouth to the dust ... there may yet be hope." (Eichah 3:29)

Surely He will have mercy on us and turn the day of catastrophe into a day of endless simcha!

Rav Kessin: "Just Before Mashiach"

On Tuesday night, I had the distinct privilege of hearing Rabbi Mendel Kessin in Jerusalem. The title of his lecture was The True Meaning of Churban and Galus and How it Affects Us. It was a two-hour lecture chock full of goodies, so it will take me some time to sort it all out, but I didn’t want to wait any longer to tell you one very important part.

Into the second hour, he began to talk about 2010. And he brought up the incident in Imanuel.

“Imanuel was a mind-boggling event. …It was incredible.”

He began to give some background.

Imanuel was established about 25 years ago. They felt that they needed a prestigious rabbi to entice others to come to live there, so they asked a very important rav, Rabbi Yehoshua Moshe Aharonson, who had just retired from being Chief Rabbi of Petach Tiqva. He agreed and came to live among them. They had a dinner to celebrate the founding of the yishuv and he was the main speaker. Now, I’ll stop here for a moment and let you read what I found about Rabbi Aharonson.

Rav Yehoshua Moshe Aharonson of Petach Tikva (1910-1993). Born in Warsaw, he was was named rabbi of Sanok in 1937. In the winter of early 1940, he was appointed to the Beis Din of Warsaw. In March 1942, he was deported to the Konin labor camp, near Chelmno. The Konin camp was liquidated in the summer of 1943. Rabbi Aharonson was taken to Hohensalza, and afterwards to Auschwitz 3 (Buna). In 1945 he was transferred from Auschwitz to Buchenwald and then taken on a death march to Theresienstadt, where he was liberated. He subsequently moved to Eretz Israel, where he served as a rabbi in Petach Tikva and Emmanuel. His writings were collected in the book Alei Merorot.

Back to the story.

“He gets up and gives a speech that is mind-boggling. …He said something that shocked the whole audience. Here’s what he said and keep in mind this is twenty-five years ago, in 1985.”

According to Rabbi Kessin, someone who was present at the dinner recorded Rav Aharonson's words. The Rav explained how the last Jews to live in the Shomron were exiled with the ten tribes because of the sin of idolatry. And from then (2500 years ago) until now (1985), it never had another permanent settlement. He told the audience that some of those who were resettling the area were the neshamas of those who had been exiled and had returned to make a tikun.

"So what's the tikun? He says like this. There'll come a time that an enormous Kidush Hashem will come out of Imanuel. Enormous! And he's saying this in 1985. And that would be the tikun for the avoda zarah. Now, they're all sitting and listening to him and they're saying what in the world is he talking about? Imanuel? A dwarf? It's a little village. What kind of Kidush Hashem is he talking about because you need a MASSIVE Kidush Hashem to mae a tikun for the ten tribes.... And this is going to happen right before Mashiach! This is what he says and no one understood what he was talking about."

Rabbi Kessin then went on to explain in great detail why he believes that the recent battle between the Chareidi parents in Imanuel and the Israeli High Court was the "enormous Kidush Hashem" referred to by Rav Aharonson.

B'kitzur, the Court, acting against all reason and their own self-interests, pushed the issue as far as they did, knowing that it never was a matter of discrimination and they basicaly demanded that the Chareidim bow down to the court and obey it even if it contradicted Torah Law and the instructions of the rabbis.

The Chareidi parents said over and over again publicly that they would only obey Hashem and His Torah. They went to prison accompanied by 150,000 supporters made up of every group of Jews. Rabbi Kessin said, "And they did it b'simcha!" He said that it was an amazing display of achdut and acceptance of the Divine Will and a tremendous Kidush Hashem. And that it could be enough of a zechut for Am Yisrael to finally cancel the gezeirah of Tisha b'Av, especially since we have entered the Minchah period of the Creation Calendar.

"Bein ha'arba'im...yehiye ohr."

Shabbat shalom.