[Avodah] Seeking source: Rav Hirsch on the Churban

[Joel C. Salomon]

On 08/14/2011 06:20 PM, I wrote:
> I recall recently reading something by Rav Hirsch where he says that the
> mourning on Tisha B'Av is not so much on the destruction of the Beis
> Hamikdosh, but that it had to be destroyed.  This tied in to Rav
> Hirsch's take on Am Yisroel as the "mamleches kohanim" to the world.
> 
> I had thought this was in his essay on Chazon Yeshayahu (in the
> Collected Writings, volume IV), but I do not see this concept there.
> Does anyone know where I can find it?

I found the quote in the Isaac Levy translation of R' Mendel Hirsch's
Haphtoros, in the introduction to Haftora of Chazon Yeshayahu.  Dr. Levy
also included Rav Hirsch's essay, which is how I conflated them.

Follow-up question:  Is the concept I mentioned above ("The Jew mourns
not that the Temple was destroyed, but that it had to be") anywhere
*explicit* in Rav Hirsch's writings, or is that his son's interpretation?

--Chesky