HaRav David Cohen spoke at length about the essence of the Hellenist battle against the Torah students in those times and up till the present ones, explaining that the underpinning of their viewpoint and knowledge was based on the rule of Nature in the world. The Greeks sought to disconnect Jewry from the Divine power and from their attachment to the soul by severing them from the holy neshamah and separating them from the Torah, since the soul endows a person with the strength to overcome the wiles of the material body.
He delineated exactly what the youth of their age needs in the manner of fortification, saying, "Our contention lies on two fronts, that of the physical world and all that is profane, since that is the attraction of Greece, and also the lure of the dreadful technological ills which can so easily lead a person to a dark and dismal end."
"We find ourselves in a war about the future of yeshivas. This is not a battle about more soldiers for the IDF but a culture war, whose aim is to destroy the yeshiva world and cancel Torah from Klal Yisroel. They are shocked to see the society that they thought would wither and die, instead flourish and reach an unprecedented size."
