SPIRITUAL PANDEMIC OF 5782 [#16709]

During corona the Rav guided us through that period. I wanted to know, will the Rav be giving a derasha soon on the topic again, in light of the current situation, and are any other additional insights that the Rav has regarding the current situation?

In the last year, the situation has changed. At first it was unthinkable for people to own treif internet devices. Then it became permitted for work purposes. Then it became accepted for everyone else [even not for work purposes] to use internet-devices. Then it came to the point where even a “normal” “avreich” “is allowed” to own such devices and that it’s all “normal.” And now it has gotten to the point where, if a person isn’t willing to own such a device in his possession, he is considered a “machmir” (very strictly observant) and “extreme”. This can be compared to a dead person, who is at first warm and then cold. This spiritual coldness [indifference] was all a result of what corona brought about, because “corona” is from the word kor, “cold”.
That is the situation now, Rachmana Litzlan, the level of the situation of the generation today. And because of this, there is no “ark of Noach” to take shelter in amidst the Flood we are in. In the Ark of Noach there was a closed window, but today the window is open to everything, ‘the size of an entranceway’ and even bigger than that. And therefore the yeshivos, which used to be called the Ark of Noach of today, can no longer be called an Ark of Noach. Because the ‘opening’ is much bigger than the enclosure [like we find in the laws of succah]. It is upon each person to work with himself, towards his Creator.