Resolute and remorseless, focused on our goal and inspired by our mission.  The Rosh Yeshiva expressed our underlying ambitions and resolution to win.  Rashi in Parshas Shoftim writes, “The officers stand at the edge of the battle array to pick up the fallen and to encourage them with words: “Return to the battle and do not flee, for flight is the beginning of defeat.”
We don’t just have resolve, we have resolve to do something great, extraordinary.  The power to accomplish a grand end.  Power has an object, a wealthy man who does not use his money is not wealthy and great speaker who never had an audience is not a great speaker.  They involve a social relationship.  The Rosh HaYeshiva knew how to take the latent power of every student and turn it into actual power. The resolve, the interest we have in an outcome.  He would say that giving up and feeling detached from the problem is truly losing.  Living every moment with the gravity of the situation and striving to solve problems was his credo.
       The difference between the victors and the losers are the vested interests we have in winning.  The midrash tells us, "Yirmiyahu said, ‘Master of the Universe, what sins have I done that in the days of all the neviim who preceded me and those who will follow me, you did not destroy your House, but only through me?' He answered, ‘Even before I created the world, you were prepared for this mission." (Pesichta Rabati 27.5). The Rosh Yeshiva was prepared for his mission, with his infectious love of every Jew and his ability to spread his passion. Rav Noach fully understood his abilities and the responsibilities he had.  
        The Rosh Yeshiva’s son, Rabbi Hillel wrote, “The Chafetz Chaim asks: the Children of Israel were slaves from Egypt who only knew how to make bricks. How did they succeed in building the Mishkan, which involved very skilled craftsmanship? The Chafetz Chaim answers: Whoever said, "I want to build the Aron," Hashem gave him the knowledge to build the Aron. Whoever said, "I want to make the Paroches," Hashem gave him the ability to make the Paroches. The Chafetz Chaim says that this applies today as well. If someone truly wants to become great in Torah, Hashem will help him become great in Torah. And if someone wants to change the world, he will change the world.”
        Theodor Herzl was an assimilated Austrian journalist who knew almost nothing about Judaism or his fellow Jews.  He died at the age of 44, within a decade he met almost every major leader in the world and ignited a spark that changed the world.  If this was on the side of the Klepiah, where is this parallel in the side of Kedushah? The Lubavitcher Rebbe would cry out a crystal clear clarion call to conquer the world in a Tzivous Hashem.  Not to be afraid of anything but Hashem, not to fear the non-religious, universities, or your past. To bring the 4 amos of halacha into every situation and locale to turn it into a kadosh place.  The Rosh Yeshiva Noach Weinberg inspired me to dream big and plan high.  One of his most famous questions he would constantly ask new guys was “What are you living for?”  They would stumble and fumble with the question, he would prod them on until they squirmed and said, “Well, Rabbi, what is the answer?” The Rosh Yeshiva would smile, “Pleasure, we are here to attain pleasure.”  
       Words cannot express the loss, nor can they express the gratitude due to the man who saved countless Jews from spiritual Holocaust.  Rebbe, it was a pleasure and an honor to spend time with you and to call you my Rebbe.