חסידות אויף ירמיהו 3:14

"There was a little town, and few people within it, [and a great king came against it and went round it and built against it great siege-works]" (Ecclesiastes 9:14) [The term for] town [is suggestive of] the term "I would waken the morning" (Psalms 57:9). [This association is] explained [as follows]: The Holy One seeks us to return to [unto God]. [This may be explained with] a parable of a king who exiled his son while one of [his ministers] - a wise man - [felt great] sorrow [over the matter]. And as a result, [the king's] mercy was awakened for all his sons, due to the strength of this wise man. So too, the righteous awaken the Holy One's mercy upon all [of the People of] Israel. And this is [the inner meaning of] "I would waken the morning". [Similarly], a divine voice announces each day "turn back, rebellious sons" (Jeremiah 3:14; Eikhah Rabbah, Petichta 25; Avot 6:2). And this is the proclamation that comes to every single one [inspiring their spiritual] awakening.

Indeed now in our own generation, after we have undergone centuries of suffering, for one to transgress the Torah he need not resort to philosophy. The shameful will simply turn away and the insolent will rise up. This is as we find in the Gemara (Sotah, 49b), “in the end of days, insolence (chutzpa) will be prevalent.” One who wants to disregard all but his own desires need not find a proof from the Torah, for who is able to tell him what to do? Just as it is a mitzvah to speak words that will be listened to, so too it is a mitzvah not to speak when you will not be heeded. Similarly, the scant remnant, “one of a city and two of a family,”¹⁶⁸Yirmiyahu, 3:14 who believe in God, in His Torah, and all its explanations, need no foundations or proofs of the existence of God from the teachings of philosophy.