“יהושיע ולי דלותי נא הושע”
Harav Eliyahu Schick, the Rav of Lida, explained:
Chazal say (Sanhedrin 98a) that “Ben Dovid only comes in a generation that is entirely innocent or entirely guilty.” The reason that HaKadosh Baruch Hu hastens to redeem Am Yisrael in a generation that is entirely guilty is because that is the way of the world. When a father sees his son mired in sin, he does not banish him from his presence. Rather, he hurries to offer him help, before it is too late. That is what Knesses Yisrael is asking for: Specifically because “dalosi,” we are poor in mitzvos, and are considered a “dor shekulo chayav,” that is entirely guilty, You should help me so that I do not sink into the depths of sin, because You are my Father.
Ein Eliyahu Pesachim 118b
