Hundreds attended the Shabbos HaGadol drasha delivered by HaGaon HaRav Moshe Shternbuch on Thursday night in the main Beis Medrash of the Dushinsky chassidus in Jerusalem.

With a voice filled with pain, HaRav Shternbuch addressed the security situation and declared: “The Chazon Ish already said: ‘I’m not afraid of the bombs; I’m afraid of Chillul Shabbos because that’s what brings the bombs.’ And today as well—we’re not afraid of the missiles from Iran; we’re afraid only of the leaders here who defile the Am Hashem and are trying to take bochurim to an army filled with kefirah and apikorsus.”

“These criminals don’t understand that the entire world stands on the Torah shel tinokus shel beis rabban. This is the Churban of the world itself!”

The Rav then shared a chilling family memory from the war years in Russia, when his family in Minsk maintained a clandestine yeshiva under an oppressive regime, risking their lives for limmud Torah until they were exiled to Siberia. “We must stand firm with complete mesirus nefesh, without any compromise,” he said.

Rav Sternbuch also directed harsh criticism at those who enter Har HaBayis in violation of halacha: “There are those who provoke the nations and ignite flames of hatred. About this, it is said: ‘Who asked this of you, to trample My courtyards?’ This is an unnecessary and dangerous provocation, and we must protest it with full force.”

(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)