Michtav M’Eliyahu (vol 1page 34) In the Torah it is written that Chanoch walked with G-d. Our Sages say he sewed shoes and at every stitch he would have mysyical thoughts about G-d. I heard in the name of Rav Yisroel Salanter that this is not to be understood literally since it is prohibited according to halacha to be occupied in a secular matter when thinking about G-d, Rather what our Sages meant is that he concentatrated his thought while stitching that each stitch should be good and strong to make the best possible shoes and thus he imitated G-d who is good to others and he had no thoughts other than to imitate G-d..
Monday, October 13, 2025
What to Know About the Gaza Deal
The long-awaited return of 20 hostages still alive in Gaza was under way early Monday, after a deal to release captives held by Hamas and stop the fighting in Gaza was approved Thursday by Israel’s government.
The deal was struck amid talks that followed after Israel and Hamas tentatively accepted a 20-point peace plan announced by President Trump. Trump sent his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and son-in-law Jared Kushner to Egypt to finalize negotiations. Both of them visited Gaza on Saturday as part of the postwar planning.
After two years, all 20 living hostages return to Israel; As Trump listens in, Sissi invites Netanyahu to today’s summit
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-october-13-2025
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has just spoken by phone with Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El-Sissi, as US President Donald Trump listens in, Channel 12 news reports. In the call, apparently brokered by Trump at the Knesset, Netanyahu accepted an invitation by the Egyptian leader to join the international summit on Trump’s Gaza peace plan in Sharm El-Sheikh today, according to the report.
An end to 738 days in hell: all 20 living hostages are no longer in Hamas captivity
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hjijmeq6gg#autoplay
After 738 days in hell, all 20 living hostages are no longer in Hamas captivity; 13 living hostages have been handed over to IDF forces and are on their way to Israeli territory; 7 freed hostages are already in an IDF base with their families
Saudi warning: 'Qatar will bring Hamas back'
https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/10/12/saudi-warning-qatar-will-bring-hamas-back
Over the past month, several key moderate Gulf states—Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain—have found themselves sidelined. While they support Trump's initiative to end the war, they are unhappy with the major concessions made to Qatar, still their regional rival and a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist movement that undermines Arab regimes. They are also uneasy about Washington's expanding defense agreements with Doha.
Phase One of Gaza Deal Nears End: What to Know
https://www.newsweek.com/phase-one-of-gaza-deal-nears-end-what-to-know-10867370
The hostages have been held since October 7, 2023, when Hamas attacked Israel and took around 250 hostages. Hamas has released 148 hostages over the past two years, eight of whom were dead, according to the Associated Press. Hamas will also return the bodies of deceased hostages, although it is not clear how quickly this will happen.
Sunday, October 12, 2025
Israel prepares for Gaza hostage releases 'at any time,' braces for Monday
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-870111
Israeli officials are prepared for the release of 48 living and deceased hostages "at any time," The Jerusalem Post learned on Saturday evening. However, the working assumption is that the releases will take place on Monday.
Saturday, October 11, 2025
'Qatar was the turning point': How Israel's bombing of Doha ignited a peace process
Trump, who has a longstanding relationship with the Qataris, issued a surprisingly sharp rebuke of the Israeli attack and would soon offer an unprecedented security guarantee to back his promise that nothing like that would happen again.
Trump extended his public olive branch in tandem with his administration’s private outreach to Qatar and other Arab countries.
In those discussions, US officials made the case that the Doha attack offered an opportunity to put new pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Hegseth blasted by Loomer, conservatives over Qatari air force facility in Idaho
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5550230-trump-allies-oppose-qatar-base/?tbref=hp
“There isn’t a single Trump supporter who supports allowing Qatar to have a military base on US soil,” Loomer posted to the social platform X. “I don’t know who told President Trump this was a good idea, but it has made people not want to vote.”
She also wrote that “no foreign country should have a military base on US soil. Especially Islamic countries.”
In another post about Hegseth, she admonished him as he “should know how bad of an idea it is to allow Terror financing Qataris who fund HAMAS and the Muslim Brotherhood to have an AIR FORCE BASE ON US SOIL.”
Trump accidentally posted message to Bondi on prosecuting Comey, adversaries
A message President Trump posted on Truth Social in September pressing Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute several political opponents was intended to be a direct message, reports say.
The Wall Street Journal reported multiple officials said Trump believed he had sent the message to Bondi privately. NBC also confirmed the message’s private intent with a former Trump administration official.
'A conspiratorial Right is rising' in America, Ben Shapiro tells 'Post'
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-869858
"There is a part of the Right that is extraordinarily conspiratorial and sees Jews as a conspiratorial force… It is rising because social media rewards it,” Ben Shapiro said in an interview with The Jerusalem Post last week. “On X and TikTok, you often get more clicks if you push anti-Israel and antisemitic rhetoric.”
He argued that the dynamic is structural rather than episodic. “You get a lot more likes and clicks if you are promoting an anti-Israel, anti-Jewish agenda than if you are doing the opposite,” he said. “Virtually every conspiracy theory ends up pointing at the Jews because the narrative needs a villain, and it is easier to recycle an old one than to make an honest argument.”
In a recent interview, Shapiro made waves by saying, even as an Orthodox Jew, that one lesson from Kirk was to “go to church.” He did not back away from that line in his interview with the Post. “America is a Christian country,” he said. “The founders were either deists or Christians, drawing on a 2,000-year Christian tradition with Judaic roots. Saying otherwise is dishonest and counterproductive. People who go to church tend to engage with a biblical morality that is valuable.
‘Jewish donors play into all the stereotypes,’ Charlie Kirk wrote in leaked texts before murder
In the days before his murder, Charlie Kirk was frustrated — and he wasn’t hiding it from his friends. The conservative influencer complained in a WhatsApp group that his “Jewish donors” were “playing into all the stereotypes” and said they were pushing him to “leave the pro-Israel cause.”
These were Yahya Sinwar's instructions for the October 7 massacre
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/416099
Israeli intelligence locates document instructing Hamas terrorists to harm IDF soldiers and Israeli civilians, set entire towns on fire, and document their actions, The New York Times reports.
The NYT report also states that the terrorists should set homes on fire using "gasoline or diesel from a tanker," and carry out "two or three operations, in which an entire neighborhood, kibbutz, or something similar will be burned."
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