Medrash Shmuel (Avos 05:02) To explain the question of Tzadik v’Rah lo we will use the events of the life of Avraham - . for who is greater than he? Yet, he endured a multiple problems including famine and the abduction of Sarah—first to the court of Pharaoh and later to the King of Gerar—among a total of ten trials that befell him. G-d revealed the reason for this by enumerating the ten generations spanning from Noah to Abraham. What lesson does this convey? It demonstrates His immense patience; generation after generation provoked Him, until Abraham arose and assumed the burden of their collective reckoning and received the reward of all of them. In other words, Abraham took upon himself the punishment due to them—bearing and enduring the suffering they deserved—thereby securing their deliverance; for by accepting a single tribulation corresponding to each generation, he stood as their shield.
Friday, September 25, 2026
LevinAt11 Lawler-On-The-Loose
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ערב שבת, ערב סוכות, יד תשרי, תשפ"ז - תהא שנת פדיון זוכותLinked* below is this week's LevinAt11 broadcast of Sept. 24, '26.
תכנית ראדיו רב יהודה לעוין, שליט"א, ערב שבת, ערב סוכות, תשפ"ז~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~Tefillah request, for refuah shelaima of:1. Rav Yehuda ben Masha HaLevi (Levin);
2. Shimon ben Masha;3. Lea bas Freeda;
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1. BREAKING NEWS: Female IDF Draft Update ("Giyus Banos");
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"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu moves toward the end of his speech at the UN by noting that the Jewish people’s story goes back over 3,000 years.
“We speak the same language today that we spoke then. We live in the same land in which our ancestors lived then — David, Solomon, Isaiah, Jeremiah,” he says.
{Notice whom he skips - the Avos, the Shvatim, and even Yehoshua (whom they like to identify with).}
“That’s our land: The Land of Israel. Our prophets {the ones you people repugnate}, our purpose and our people are unique in history.”
“Our values have inspired humanity for millennia,” he continues:
“The belief in one god.
{The One G-d against Whom your people regularly rebel}
The sanctity of life.
{As in the killing of over two million Israeli babies via abortion}
The rule of law.
{As in your pro-LGBT laws - flying in the face of even Noahide Law, how much more so Torah-Law as applies to Jews}
Our eternal quest for peace.
{As in your unrelenting fulfilment of the abominations of Parshas Achrei-Mos resulting in being spit out of the Land (see Ramban VAYIKRA 18:25).}
Our eternal quest for justice.
{As in your institutionalized persecution of girls seeking to escape the military draft dragnet.}
It is these sacred values that propelled us throughout the ages.
{Who's Us?? You?!}
It is these values that helped us beat the odds of history.”
{And it's these sacred values that you routinely spit at in countless ways.}
“Over the centuries, the tyrannies that tried to destroy us failed time and again,” he concludes, “and God willing, they will continue to fail. If we muster our courage, if we steel our resolve, we will continue to win.”
“The eternity of Israel will not falter,” he says, quoting the Bible, “and the reason is simple: “We have no other choice.”
{As if it's up to us, and as if the "Eternity of Israel" is not referring to G-d, but to Jews, afar lePihu.}
“Happy holidays, and thank you,” he says ...."
Closing Comment: Well, not so happy - if you happen to be an innocent teenage girl standing up for the authentic traditional role of Jewish women - and have consequently run afoul of Israeli human-trafficking professionals of Meitav, under which the IDF Draft Office persecutions against Innocent girls are routinely committed with impunity.
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Pro-Trump TV ad funded by government draws fire from both sides
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6110237-trump-government-ad-criticism/
Democrats and some Republicans are criticizing an ad from the Trump administration paid for by the U.S. government that pushes back against communism, socialism and Marxism in the U.S. just weeks before the midterm elections.
The 30-second commercial features Trump’s voice, saying, “Together we will defeat communism, socialism and Marxism in America,” and, “America will never be a communist country.” The song “Love Me” by JMSN, whose name is Christian Berishaj, plays in the background.
In the ad, photos and videos of the president quickly flash by, touting the “largest tax cuts in history,” along with “reigniting American manufacturing” and “defend law and order and police.”
Outlets reported that AdImpact said the advertisement cost $14,000 and ran during conservative shows on Fox News and Newsmax starting Wednesday night
In fiery UN speech, Netanyahu blasts Iran, Qatar, Turkey, slams Gaza genocide accusation
PM calls genocide allegation ‘lie of the century,’ defends IDF’s morality, underplays settler violence; many envoys walk out before he starts; he doesn’t mention Saudis or Abraham Accords
Thursday, September 24, 2026
HaGaon HaRav Dovid Cohen: ‘There Were Educators Who Abused Children And It Was Covered Up; It Is Literally Murder!’
HaGaon Rav Dovid Cohen, Rosh Yeshivas Chevron and a member of Degel HaTorah’s Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah, has spoken out directly and publicly for the first time about the phenomenon of abuse in the Chareidi community.
Rav Cohen made the remarks during a meeting with Rabbanim from the Mafteach Le’Asid organization, headed by Yedida Goldberg, which works to promote safeguarding in Chareidi society. The organization, under the leadership of Raav Yehoshua Eichenstein, has implemented the “Safe Environment” safeguarding program of the Social Platform nonprofit in dozens of Litvish chedarim in Jerusalem, after HaGaon Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch gave the initiative the green light.
“There have been many cases of abuse that I have become aware of over the years, and I have presumably encountered only a small portion of them,” HaRav Cohen said. “Every person who was abused — it is as though they were murdered.”
“By my estimate, every single year there are dozens, and perhaps more than dozens, who are abused, and they are destroyed spiritually and emotionally. We cannot tolerate this anymore. We cannot tolerate it. Unfortunately, there were periods when abusers were protected — including educators.”
Ambassador's son critically wounded in terror attack: 'Neria needs a miracle'
Neria Leiter was critically injured in a car-ramming attack. His older brother, Maj. (res.) Moshe Yedidya Leiter, was killed in battle in Beit Hanoun during the Swords of Iron War. Their father, Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter: "They choose death, we choose life."
Trump’s approval plunges into the 20s, and Republicans give up
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/6104722-trump-approval-low-gop/
It was received wisdom during President Trump’s first term that his hard floor of support sat somewhere around one-third of Americans. Those were the MAGA true believers, the die-hards, the folks who stood in line for hours to attend their fifth Trump rally of the year. That rule of thumb proved to be true. Trump’s approval was still hovering in the 40s before ending around 34 percent on Jan. 4, 2021.
It was received wisdom during President Trump’s first term that his hard floor of support sat somewhere around one-third of Americans. Those were the MAGA true believers, the die-hards, the folks who stood in line for hours to attend their fifth Trump rally of the year. That rule of thumb proved to be true. Trump’s approval was still hovering in the 40s before ending around 34 percent on Jan. 4, 2021.
An American Research Group poll published this week found Trump’s approval at just 29 percent — a new low for his presidency and a flashing warning sign for the congressional Republicans being dragged beneath the waves by the president’s plummeting popularity.
Wednesday, September 23, 2026
Macron says Hamas was ‘never active’ in West Bank. Nearly 40 years of terror campaign say otherwise
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hkmomwzqgl
French President Emmanuel Macron’s speech Tuesday night at the UN General Assembly immediately sparked an uproar in Israel after he claimed that Hamas had never “caused trouble” in the West Bank, a statement contradicted by nearly four decades of the terrorist organization’s activity there.
Macron's blatant lie is only a sideshow
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433518
Macron’s false statement about Hamas is grotesque, but the real story is the lethal "palestine" fairytale dreamed up by the KGB and now believed the world over.
Macron's Hamas comments at UN were translation 'misinterpretation
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-909407
French President Emmanuel Macron's earlier comments on Hamas's West Bank operations were a translation "misinterpretation," a French diplomatic source told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday.
According to the source, the statement was translated as "Hamas has never been particularly active," but the meaning of the French phrase stated by Macron, "le Hamas n'a jamais sévi en Cisjordanie," is "Hamas has never governed the West Bank."
The apparent clarification follows criticism from several Israeli officials after Macron made the comments during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Netanyahu decries Macron’s ‘grotesque’ claim that Hamas ‘never operated’ in West Bank
PM notes an Israeli with French citizenship was killed by a Palestinian terrorist just days before; French official tells ToI that Macron meant Hamas ‘doesn’t govern’ the territory
Hidden Rewards
Fascinatingly, the Midrash in Vayikra Rabbah tells us that Tsara'at HaBayit comes as a reward. Now how can this be possible? You lose your home and it's a reward? Explains the Midrash. When the Canaanites were fleeing from the Holy Land, they hoped that one day they would return to their homes. And so they hid their most valuable possessions inside the walls of those homes. And so Hashem identified those homes by placing the discolouration on the walls.
Consequently, once the homes were raised to the ground, the owners were able to find that hidden treasure.
I believe that there is a powerful message here for all of life. Sometimes things go wrong, and we cry out to God and we say: 'Why have you cursed us in this fashion?' Little do we realise that actually we are taking a few steps backwards in order to move hundreds of steps forwards. Sometimes the greatest of treasures in life come through difficulty and travail. This is how the Gemara in Masechet Brachot puts it, Kol man d'avid Rachmana l'tav avid. Whatever God does, he does for the good.
Birkas Asher (Vayikra 14:34) Rashi notes that the affliction of the house was actually a good thing since it revealed the treasure hidden in the walls by the Canananites though that implies that the phenomenon happened only when they were first conquering Israel, This requires further study.. In addition there is an additional question as to why the benefit of finding treasure was only for those who spoke lashon harah. The Maskil l’Dovid explains that when the Jews first came to Israel it was not a punishment but a reward
Or HaChaim (Vayikra 14:34) When you come to the land…and I will give a plague of "leprosy," etc. How can one describe the plague of "leprosy" breaking out on one's house as good news so that the Torah describes it as a gift from G'd? Why did the Torah not merely write: "when the walls of your houses develop certain stains, etc." in the same way as the Torah described such a skin disease in 13,9? Vayikra Rabbah 17,6 was conscious of this and explained that the Canaanites who heard that the Israelites were approaching hid their valuables inside the walls of their houses. When the walls would display signs of "leprosy," the Jewish owner would investigate and discover the hidden treasure. This is homiletics, of course. Rabbi Levy explains in that same Midrash that when G'd wishes to reprove us He does not immediately inflict pain on our bodies, but He first afflicts our houses, and in the event this does not help He afflicts our clothing. Only if we fail to respond to these two warnings does G'd inflict the plague on our bodies, i.e. our skin. When viewed in this light the affliction on the house is indeed a "gift" i.e. a demonstration of G'd's loving concern for us.
Gunman who fired on police outside Canada synagogue dies of gunfight wounds
Like many Western countries, Canada has seen a rise in reported incidents of antisemitism over the last three years amid criticism of Israel’s response to the October 7, 2023, Hamas terror onslaught.
Sunday’s shooting comes months after Carney warned that Canada was failing its Jewish community amid a surge in antisemitism.
Carney cited shootings at Jewish schools, firebombings of synagogues and attacks on community centers and Jewish-owned businesses. His government announced millions in additional funding to help faith-based institutions pay for security infrastructure, training and personnel.
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
Tzaras is Natural or Miraculous
Bamidbar Rabbah (19:03) On what account is a leper cleansed with the aid of the tallest of tall trees and with the lowest of low ones, namely, with the cedar tree and the hyssop? He had been punished with leprosy owing to his having exalted himself like the cedar tree. Having humbled himself like the hyssop he was healed by the aid of a hyssop.
Birchas Asher (Vayikra13:01) According to those who agree with the view of Rambam one can ask from the words of the gemora that there is no tzuras in Babylonia because they eat beets, drink beer, and bathe in the waters of the Euphrates.\that means that Tzuras is physiological In contrast there is a medrash about turas of houses in which it was a sign from God to find hidden treasure. Thus we see that our Sages were not in agreement about this and there are conflicting views
Kesubos (77b) Rabbi Yoḥanan said: For what reason are there no lepers in Babylonia? Because they eat beets, drink beer, and bathe in the waters of the Euphrates, all of which are good for the body. It is prohibited to go four cubits to the east of a leper. R. Simeon b. Lakish said: Even a hundred cubits. They did not really differ; the one who said four cubits referred to a time when there is no wind blowing, whereas the one who said not even a hundred cubits, eferred to a time when a wind is blowing. R. Meir would not eat eggs that came from an alley of lepers. R. Ammi and R. Assi would not enter a leper's alley. Resh Lakish, when he saw one of them in the city, threw stones towards him, and said: ' Go to your place, and do not defile other people,’ as R. Hiyya taught: He shall dwell alone of them, hid himself from him,
Magen Avraham (O.C. 173:1): The combination causes leprosy – It is possible that in modern times there is not so much danger because we know that many things that are mentioned in the Talmud as being a danger because of ruach rah and other reasons do not cause harm today because nature has changed. Also it is a function of the nature of the particular country…
Moreh Nevuchim (03:47) Tzaraas is a miracle received in our nation by tradition, in the same manner as the effect of the trial of a faithless wife. The good effect of this belief is evident. Leprosy is besides a contagious disease, and people almost naturally abhor it, and keep away from it.
Ralbag (Vayikra 13:47) Tzara’as on these objects is caused by moisture and heat… this causes them to be damaged and destroyed… the discoloration is what you’d find in moldy places, like water near a dump, where things turn green or red.
Ramban (Vayikra 13:47) AND WHEN THE PLAGUE OF LEPROSY IS IN A GARMENT. This is not in the natural order of things, nor does it ever happen in the world outside Israel, and similarly leprosy of houses is not a natural phenomenon. But when Israel is wholly devoted to G-d, then His spirit is upon them always, to maintain their bodies, clothes and houses in a good appearance. Thus as soon as one of them commits a sin or transgression, a deformity appears in his flesh, or on his garment, or in his house, revealing that G-d has turned aside from him…
Ramban (Vayikra 14:34) Scripture states with reference to plagues in houses, and ‘I’ shall put the plague of leprosy, in order to allude to the fact that it was G-d’s hand that did this, and not an act of nature at all,
Vayikra Rabbah (17:03) For ten sins does leprosy come upon the world: (i) idol-worship, (ii) gross unchastity, (iii) bloodshed, (iv) the profanation of the Divine Name, (v) blasphemy of the Divine Name, (vi) robbing the public, (vii) usurping [a dignity] to which one has no right, (viii) overweening pride, (ix) evil speech, and (x) an evil eye.
Vayikra Rabbah (17:06) When the Canaanites heard that the Israelites were approaching, they set to and hid their valuables in the houses and in the fields. Said G-d: ' I promised the Israelites’forefathers that I would bring their children into a land full of all that is good,’ as it is said, And houses full of all good things. What did G-d do?-He brought plagues upon a house
Trump criticizes the press for failing to report fake accomplishments
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/22/politics/trump-press-fake-accomplishments
President Donald Trump, defending his decision to ban CNN and two other media outlets from the White House, argued Monday that the press has “an obligation” to report on his accomplishments.
But Trump immediately cited two supposed accomplishments that do not actually exist.
We don’t report that he “settled eight wars” because he didn’t. We don’t report that there is “$21 trillion pouring in” to the United States because there isn’t. Both numbers are wildly inflated.
Trump’s claims about having won a “landslide” victory, having “the best economic numbers for the country” and that “we’ve done so well” with Iran are some combination of too subjective and too vague to debunk, though it’s clear all three can be reasonably challenged. But his claims that “I’ve settled eight wars” and “we have $21 trillion pouring in” are incorrect, as CNN has repeatedly noted when he has made the same or similar claims on numerous previous occasions.
Gaza journalist who met with Mamdani admits he buried Oct. 7 footage of Israeli hostages being beaten to protect perpetrators
A Gaza journalist who has met with Mayor Mamdani and been honored with a Nobel Peace Prize nomination and a spot on the Time100 list admitted that he buried footage of Israeli hostages being beaten by a Palestinian mob on Oct. 7, 2023 in order to protect the perpetrators.
Photographer Motaz Azaiza also revealed that all media in Gaza is controlled by Hamas through a single WhatsApp group — and the terror group will target any journalist who publishes criticism.
Azaiza — who has become one of the most famous journalists in Gaza — was in the territory on Oct. 7, when Hamas marched the hostages taken from Israel through the streets of Gaza, where all hell broke loose.
“Photographers in Gaza have become accustomed to lowering their cameras the moment someone says something bad about Hamas, he said, “because anyone who dares to show reality is persecuted relentlessly.”
He said he had to flee the territory after publishing people criticizing Hamas. He now lives in Qatar.
Despite Azaiza withholding the footage of the hostages being beaten as part of his coverage of the war, some of the hostages who were paraded around the Gaza Strip on Oct. 7 eventually spoke out about the ordeal.
Itay Regev, a survivor of the Nova Music Festival massacre, said Hamas had driven him and others around the streets of Gaza and displayed them like human “trophies” to the angry crowds.
Revelation raises questions about reporting from Gaza
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433489
Motaz Azaiza says he filmed Gazans assaulting hostages but withheld the footage out of concern that Israel would identify them. He also revealed pressure exerted by Hamas on journalists.
An eight-step guide to blaming Israel
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/433475
The beginner should start with a simple rule: Never permit an event to have more than one cause if Israel can be blamed.
Next up is correct chronological selection. History is dangerous because it contains events that interfere with arguments. The solution is simply to begin the story after those events.
Israel must never be crudely compared with what its enemies do. It should be measured against an imaginary country operating under ideal conditions available only in thought experiments.
Tumah
Kuzari (3 49) The Rabbi: Impurity and holiness are contradictory ideas; one cannot be thought of without the other. Without holiness we should not know the signification of impurity. Impurity means that the approach to holy objects, hallowed by God, is forbidden to the person so affected. Such would be priests, their food, clothing, offering, sacrifices, the holy House, etc. In the same way the ideas of holiness include something which forbids the person connected with it to approach many ordinary objects. This chiefly depends on the vicinity of the Shekhinah, which we now lack entirely. The prohibition which still holds good, of cohabiting with a woman in her period or after confinement has nothing to do with impurity, but is an independent divine law. The practice we observe to keep aloof from them as much as possible is but a restriction and hedge to prevent cohabitation. The regulations of impurity proper ceased to exist for us, because we live in 'an unclean land and in unclean air,' especially as we move about among graves, vermin, lepers, persons affected with issue, corpses, etc.
Zohar (1:64a) As the Left Arm above grasps the Female and lovingly draws her to him, so below the serpent, which is the left arm of the unclean spirit, and joined with it he that rides on it, draw near to the moon and draw her tightly to them, so that she becomes defiled. Israel, therefore, here below offer up a goat, to which the serpent is drawn away. The moon then purges herself, ascends on high, and unites herself to the higher sphere to receive blessing, and her lower face, which was darkened, becomes bright. So here on the Day of Atonement, since the evil serpent is occupied with the he-goat, the moon breaks loose from him, and earnestly pleads the cause of Israel, and watches over them like a mother over her children, so G-d blesses them from above and forgives their sins. Afterwards, when Israel celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles, the “right side” is awakened on high, so that the moon may attach herself to it and her face may become completely bright. She then shares out blessings to all those presiding chiefs of the lower world, so that they may be fully occupied with their own portions, and not attempt to draw sustenance from the side from which Israel obtained their portion.
Zohar (1 70a) G-d will one day sweep away the unclean spirit, as it is written, And the unclean spirit I will cause to pass out of the land, and further, He will swallow up death for ever, and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people will he take away from off all the earth, for the Lord hath spoken it. God will also one day restore the moon to its full light, and dissipate the darkness brought on her by the evil serpent, as it is written, And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of the seven days , the reference here being to the primordial light which G-d stored away during the period of the creation.’
Zohar (1 125b) ‘I marvel at the wicked Balaam, how all his actions proceeded from the side of impurity. We here learn the mystical lesson that all species of witchcraft are linked up with, and proceed from, the primeval serpent who is the foul and unclean spirit. Hence all sorceries are called serpents. And whoever becomes addicted to them pollutes himself, nay more, he has first to become polluted in order to attract to himself the side of the unclean spirit. For it is a dictum of our teachers that corresponding to the impulses of a man here are the influences which he attracts to himself from above. Should his impulse be towards holiness, he attracts to himself holiness from on high and so he becomes holy; but if his tendency is towards the side of impurity, he draws down towards himself the unclean spirit and so becomes polluted. For this reason, in order to draw towards himself the unclean spirit from that supernal serpent, the wicked Balaam besmirched himself nightly by bestial intercourse with his ass, and he would then proceed to his divinations and sorceries. To begin with he would take one of the familiar serpents, tie it up, break