Rabbi Roodyn

Rav Hirsch takes this idea a stage further and says that even while this dark era bursts like a ruinous thunderstorm upon those who are incurable, its flashes of lightning serve to enlighten those still capable of acquiring better knowledge and understanding.

Those who are not destined to perish from the impact of this storm will gain better insight through what they will now witness, and they will go into that ‘state of labour’ which accompanies moral rebirth and improvement.