Rosh Yeshiva Magor Hizhak in the Lithuanian Corona Yeshiva • Exclusive video

October 9, 2020   

Exclusive video on Haredim 10: The head of the yeshiva from Gur, Harosh Alter, spoke today (Thursday) to hundreds of students of the Heichal Yitzchak yeshiva, led by the head of the yeshiva, Rabbi Yisrael Landa. The yeshiva students had been confined in capsules in the yeshiva since the beginning of the month of Elul, and with the outbreak of coronavirus in the yeshiva, they remained there in isolation - until after the holiday of Simchat Torah.

Photo: Dabar Emet

The head of the yeshiva from Gur came to deliver words of encouragement and awakening regarding the greatness and sanctity of the holiday and Torah study. The head of the yeshiva explained that when one enters the sukkah, one enters a different reality of "dirit arai" - "tsila damaimanuta", and therefore the law is that the sukkah needs partitions that are noticeable and visible, unlike in the laws of Shabbat. He strengthened the students, saying that the yeshivah is also a higher reality in itself, like Noah's Ark, as the Chazon Ish said. Therefore, the students who were closed for so long in the yeshivah for Torah study, fulfill in their souls the words of the scripture "who says to his father and mother, I have not seen him" - when they are cut off from home in the yeshivah. [Gallery] He then expanded on the matters of buyers, on the matters of envying lulav as a gift in order to return it - and concluded with passionate words of encouragement about awakening to the observance of the mitzvot and studying Torah with desire and enthusiasm for the power of the holy days.