[Avodah] Seeking source: Rav Hirsch on the Churban

[Joel C. Salomon]

On 08/15/2011 07:59 AM, Prof. Levine wrote:
> At 05:24 AM 8/15/2011, R. Joel C. Salomon wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> If it is anywhere, I would think that it would be one of his essays on
> the month of Av in Volume I of the Collected Writings of RSRH.

That was where I looked first.  A quick read-through did not turn up
that exact idea, so I hoped one of the Hirschians on the list might have
a better mar’ah makom.

--Chesky