Trump gifted a lavishly encrusted ring from Belgian diamond group that won tariff relief

 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/belgian-diamond-group-gifts-trump-ring/

Dozens of diamonds spell out two giant letter "T" next to the Stars and Stripes and "1776" and "2026." Dozens more frame the numbers 45 and 47 in the shape of Superman's logo. A diamond-winged eagle carries a ruby shield and clutches an olive branch of emeralds, below a radiant "250" and atop the phrase "250 YEARS USA" etched in 18-karat gold.

All told, 321 diamonds, 56 sapphires, 13 emeralds and six rubies encrust the watch-sized gold ring presented this week to Bill White, the U.S. ambassador to Belgium, to give to President Trump.

The gift comes months after Belgium's diamond industry won the removal of U.S. tariffs on diamond imports. In September, AWDC said it had "succeeded in securing a zero percent import tariff" on Antwerp's annual export of more than $2 billion of polished diamonds to the U.S. A spokesperson for the group said on Thursday that the AWDC provided "input" to the European Commission as it negotiated with Mr. Trump on a broad deal on tariffs in 2025, but did not itself lobby the administration.

Women were Cursed

 Eruvin (100b) Eve was cursed with ten curses, since it is written: Unto the woman He said, and I will greatly multiply, which refers to the two drops of blood, one being that of menstruation and the other that of virginity, ‘thy pain’ refers to the pain of bringing up children, ‘and thy travail’ refers to the pain of conceptions ‘in pain thou shalt bring forth children’ is to be understood in its literal meaning, ‘and thy desire shall be to thy husband’ teaches that a woman yearns for her husband when he is about to set out on a journey, ‘and he shall rule over thee’ teaches that while the wife solicits with her heart the husband does so with his mouth, this being a fine trait of character among women? — What was meant is that she ingratiates herself with him. But are not these only seven? When R. Dimi came he explained: She is wrapped up like a mourner, banished from the company of all men and confined within a prison. What is meant by ‘banished from the company of all men’? If it be suggested: That she is forbidden to meet a man in privacy, is not the man also but could be retorted. forbidden to meet a woman in privacy? — The meaning rather is that she is forbidden to marry two men

Eruvin (100b) Eve was cursed with three additional curses are: She grows her hair long like Lilith, a demon; she sits and urinates, like an animal; and serves as a pillow for her husband during relations.

One year on, Trump's Gaza plan has not stopped Israeli fire or disarmed Hamas

 https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-910750

US President Donald Trump’s year-old plan to end the Gaza war has stalled, and Israel and Hamas have been battling in the Gaza Strip for almost three years.

The initial phase resulted in a ceasefire on October 10, 2025, and secured the release of the last remaining hostages seized in Hamas’s 2023 attacks on Israel, in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and detainees held by Israel.

But other goals, including disarming Hamas, securing Israeli withdrawal - as the IDF currently controls about two-thirds of the strip - and rebuilding Gaza, appear far from reach.

California leaders slam Trump for saying Iran could ‘take out’ L.A. or San Diego

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/10/06/california-leaders-slam-trump-saying-iran-could-take-out-la-or-san-diego/

California officials have sharply criticized President Donald Trump after he appeared to suggest Iran could “take out” Los Angeles and San Diego in a speech in Nebraska on Monday.

Speaking at a Republican rally, Trump said Iran could not develop a nuclear weapon and described the war as a “small price to pay for keeping the world safe.”

He suggested Iran could “take out a city,” saying: “Let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego.” He added that the war would be over “very soon.”

In a social media post, White House communications director Steven Cheung said Trump “was clearly stating U.S. cities would have been threatened if a nuclear Iran hadn’t been stopped.”

Mamdani’s plan to tackle antisemitism faces backlash from Jewish New Yorkers

 https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/6130352-zohran-mamdani-antisemitism-strategy-criticized/

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) rolled out a first-of-its-kind municipal strategy to combat antisemitism last week, and it has drawn some criticism from Jewish leaders who say its omission of Israel and anti-Zionism overlooks a key factor behind the recent rise in hate crimes against Jewish New Yorkers.

A joint statement from the United Jewish Appeal (UJA)-Federation of New York, the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, the American Jewish Committee, and the New York Board of Rabbis welcomed elements of the plan but said the city must also confront anti-Israel rhetoric — including Mamdani’s own — to effectively combat antisemitism.

“While the Mayor’s plan has a number of positive elements, including some increased security funding for Jewish institutions and expanding proven programs, it fails to address a central issue that the Mayor himself has perpetuated: rhetoric that demonizes and delegitimizes Israel inevitably leads to the targeting of Jewish New Yorkers,” the groups wrote in a statement.

Midterm Voters Live in Trump’s Two Economic Realities

 https://www.newsweek.com/midterm-voters-live-in-trumps-two-economic-realities-12526758

Donald Trump’s administration has been stacking up some economic wins as of late as his Republican Party candidates prepare for the midterms.

That’s because the economy is doing well—for people like Donald Trump. Most Americans are not like Donald Trump, and his administration’s impressive growth statistics and booming corporate profits are not the kind of numbers most Americans encounter on a daily basis. Those are found on the sign outside the gas station and at the bottom of the grocery receipt.

Tzadik Tamim

 Noam Elimelech (Noach 3:1) A perfect tzadik was he in his generation The tzadik by the  holy deeds that he does brings G-d into to the world and thus is benefitting his generation since the Shechinah is with them because of his actions. Thus when the tzadik reaches high spiritual levels he causes the connection with G-d and His influence in all worlds. Thus the meaning is that such a tzadik benefits his generation  through his spirituality as well as elevating himself  and even influences the higher realms as expressed by saying that he walked with G-d

Michtav M’Eliyahu (2:184) A tzadik decrees and G-d fulfills – It is obviously true that this does not mean that a tzadik can decree something which G-d doesn’t want. The explanation is that there are tzadikim for whom the whole world exists in their merit. That all that happens in the world is merely a means for us to learn from the conduct of these tzadikim how to elevate our service of G-d. What we learn from them is what preserves all of us from the lowest to the highest. That is what it means that because of their merit we live because we are mere utensils for the tzadik which enables us to see G-d’s great kindness in that He freely sustains the entire world .So when a tzadik who is at this exalted level sees an issue which hides an aspect of G-d’s honor it is appropriate for him to ask G-d to withhold it even if it involves a change in G-d’s normal actions. This is what is meant by “a tzadik decrees and G-d fulfills

Reish Lakish killed the Gladiators

  Gittin (47a) Reish Lakish sold himself to gladiators. He took a bag and a round stone inside of it with him. He said: There is a tradition that on the final day of a captive’s life, before his captors kill him, they do for him anything that he requests of them, so that he would forgive them for the spilling of his blood. On the final day before they were set to kill him they said to him: What is amenable to you? He said to them: I want to tie you up and have you sit, and I will strike each one of you one and a half times. He tied them up and had each one of them sit. When he struck each of them with one strike with the stone in the bag, the one whom he struck died, because Reish Lakish was of great strength. Reish Lakish gritted his teeth in anger, and said to the one whom he killed, in order to prevent the others from realizing what was happening: Are you laughing at me? You still have half of a strike remaining with me, as I struck you only once. He killed them all, and Reish Lakish escaped his captors. He left and came back home, and after some time had passed he was sitting, eating, and drinking, without concern for his livelihood. His daughter said to him: You don’t want something to lie upon? He said to her: My daughter, my belly is my pillow, and this is enough for me. When he died he left only a kav of saffron as an inheritance, and even so he recited this verse about himself: “And they leave their wealth for others” (Psalms 49:11), meaning that he was pained that he did not use all of his property. He exhibited his confidence that God would provide his needs by not saving money for the future. 

Rav Tzadok (Takanas Hashavim 9) The nature of Reish Lakish’s criminal past is not mentioned at all in the Talmud since it had already been repented and thus was no longer considered that he had sinned at all. It appears to me that the story that he sold himself to gladiators and killed all of them is also not regarded as sinful as Tosfos states there since this happened before he did teshuva, However it is not clear why this event was mentioned in the Talmud especially since it seems like he was going to be killed by the gladiators according to the customs of those times and thus it was tantamount to suicide. It is thus obvious to me  that all his actions were done deliberately for the sake of Heaven for the sake of repentance because there are views that suicide and self induced suffering is an appropriate way of teshuva.

Teshuva and Aveira Lishma

 Rav Tzadok (Takanas Hashavim 9) Through repentance willful transgressions are transformed into inadvertent errors or even merits; it constitutes a rectification of the past—specifically regarding actions already carried out—achieved by bringing one’s heartfelt repentance all the way to the root of the soul within the intellect reaching the Throne of Glory, from which the rectification of those past actions also emanates. The reason such acts are likened to inadvertent errors—specifically through repentance born of fear—is analogous to the case of one who intends to eat pork but ends up eating lamb: the Talmud likens this to an inadvertent error regarding forgiveness and atonement, because the person’s intent was to commit a forbidden act. Thus, even though the past is rectified—with everything transformed into merits, as all is the will of God and there is no evil at all "for You are with me"—nevertheless, if the original intent was to transgress, the act is still classified as an inadvertent error. Therefore it is necessary to rectify the intent until it is viewed entirely as a merit and not at all as a sin even though we know the original intent was to sin and do evil.  

Rav Tzadok (Takanas Hashavim 9) The nature of Reish Lakish’s criminal past is not mentioned at all in the Talmud since it had already been repented and thus was no longer considered that he had sinned at all. It appears to me that the story that he sold himself to gladiators and killed all of them is also not regarded as sinful as Tosfos states there since this happened before he did teshuva, However it is not clear why this event was mentioned in the Talmud especially since it seems like he was going to be killed by the gladiators according to the customs of those times and thus it was tantamount to suicide. It is thus obvious to me  that all his actions were done deliberatly for the sake of Heaven for the sake of repentance because there are views that suicide and self induced suffering is an appropriate way of teshuva..

Keser Rosh(132) An aveira Leshma has not been permitted at all from the time of the giving of the Torah otherwise why have the 613 Mitzvos

Nefesh HaChaim(01:21) And this was also the entire matter of the service of the Patriarchs, and all the early righteous ones who accomplished the Torah before it was given, as our rabbis  commented on the verse: “from the ritually permitted animals…”. And they stated: “from here we conclude that Noach learned Torah”. And they stated:”Avraham upheld the entire Torah. It’s not that they were commanded and thus acting as they did from a legal perspective, for if it were so they would not have taken positions based on their own intellect and attainment, even if they had grasped that based on the context of the root of their soul- it would have been necessary to trespass and to change even a small part of one of all of God’s- commandments. Yaakov would not have married two sisters, nor would have Amram married his aunt. 

Brooke Eby, Who Chronicled Life With ALS With Humor and Honesty, Dies at 37

 https://www.today.com/health/health/brooke-eby-dies-als-advocate-37-rcna589053

She turned a terminal neurodegenerative diagnosis into a movement, using candor, wit and humor to “really let ALS be heard.”

Brooke Eby, who transformed her diagnosis with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis into one of social media’s most compelling chronicles of resilience, humor and advocacy, helping change how millions of people understood a devastating disease, has died. She was 37.

When Eby was diagnosed in 2022 at age 33 after years of unexplained symptoms, she faced a prognosis that people with the disease know all too well: ALS is a fatal, progressive neurodegenerative disease with no cure and few effective treatments. Rather than retreat from public life, she leaned into it.

Her videos, often equal parts comedy routine and medical diary, documented the realities of losing mobility without surrendering her personality. She joked about wheelchairs, dating, awkward encounters with strangers and the absurdities of living with a terminal illness, drawing millions of viewers who found themselves laughing before they learned something about ALS.

Remembering Rebbetzin Chana Weinberg

 https://aish.com/remembering_rebbetzin_chana_weinberg/

Rebbetzin Chana Weinberg died last Monday, Jan. 23. The German-born rebbetzin, a universally well-respected advocate of women’s rights and domestic abuse awareness in the Jewish community, was the wife of Ner Israel Rabbinical College’s late rosh yeshiva (dean), Rabbi Yaakov S. Weinberg. Her late father, Rabbi Yaacov Yitzchok Ruderman, was the yeshiva’s founder and first rosh yeshiva. Rebbetzin Weinberg served as a consultant on the formation of CHANA (Counseling Helpline and Aid Network for Abused Women), a project of the Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore.

A Ballad for the Medic | הבלדה לחובש

IDF paratrooper Yosef Haguel, associated with famed 'Ballad for a Medic,' dies at 80

 https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-910522

Famed IDF paratrooper Yosef Haguel, who was associated with the song Balladah L’Hovesh (Ballad for a Medic), died on Saturday at the age of 80.

During the Six Day War, Haguel fought in Battalion 28 of the Paratroopers Brigade in the battle against the Jordanian Legion in east Jerusalem.

Haguel was seriously wounded in the battle, and the company medic, Shlomo Epstein, treated him under fire. When mortar shells were fired toward them, Epstein shielded Haguel with his body to protect him and was killed on the spot by a direct hit.

https://www.hebrewsongs.com/?song=baladahlachovesh

BALLAD FOR THE MEDIC

They slowly advanced. Everything was calm.

Against the river, with the reeds rustling

suddenly a lightning bolt roared,

and one [person] yelled out: [I'm] wounded!

I'm coming - the medic replied to him.

We went over a mine! the wounded yelled,

I'm here, by your side - the medic replied to him.

A hail of fire is coming down,

a heavy fragmentary hail,

across the river, to the murmuring reeds

Leave me here - the wounded requested,

leave the non-sense

- the medic then answered him.

Save yourself - the wounded requested.

I'm staying with you - the medic answered him.

And the two remained alone,

and the field was open.

And the two remained alone,

exposed to the fire.

We are [about to] perish

- the wounded then muttered,

hold me well

- the medic answered him.

You were wounded too

- the wounded them muttered

never mind, it's not too bad

- the medic answered him.

The fire is very heavy! It's very hard to move.

Just don't despair, just don't despair,

I'll always remember you

- the wounded then pledged.

Just don't fall - the medic then muttered.

I'm yours till the day you die

- the wounded then pledged.

Today's the day I die

- the medic answered him.

Suddenly a dust cloud, suddenly the wind rose,

and a shaddow over the ground,

it approached loudly.

We're saved! They're coming!

- the wounded then whimpered,

but he did not hear a word out of the medic.

My brother, my very brother!

- the wounded then whimpered.

Across the river, the reeds are rustling,

my brother, my very brother

my brother, my very brother

my brother!!!

Trump’s friendship with Erdogan ignores Turkey’s hosting of Hamas

 https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-909961

Maybe Trump is enamored by the flattery that he’s received from Erdogan, who knows just how important it is for the American president to hear how wonderful his efforts are in trying to broker peace.

US President Donald Trump considers Hamas to be the world’s enemy, referring to them as “terrorists” and “killers,” explicitly condemning their violent acts, attacks on civilians, and the holding of hostages.

So why does he call their host a friend, praising him as a strong leader whom he respects and a “fantastic guy?”

While Trump may secretly recognize the real danger of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, knowing that this loose cannon could wreak havoc on the Middle East if he so desired, his high esteem takes the expression, “keep your friends close and your enemies closer,” to a whole new level.

Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

 "Somewhat ironically, more than a decade later, General Westmoreland would reflect on the battle in the Ia Drang Valley, noting that “An enemy document captured later admitted heavy losses but rationalized them on the basis that the lessons learned were worth the cost of a hundred thousand men.”62 Whether he recognized it or not, that observation captured another reality that would invalidate his strategy: the North Vietnamese leadership did not regard casualties in the same light as did the Americans. The North Vietnamese and their supporters in the South felt they were engaged in their war of independence, and they were willing to sacrifice vast numbers of soldiers to achieve victory in it. It is undoubtedly harder for a general from a democratic country, who constantly needs to consider the domestic political effect of high death tolls, to fight an attritional war. On the other hand, ideological autocrats such as Ho Chi Minh and Mao Zedong had a cynical disregard for human life (from our perspective at least), caring only for the eventual outcome of “the people’s struggle” and the victory of the dictatorship of the proletariat. By contrast, Western generals, understandably, have needed to fight in such a way that casualties are carefully kept to an absolute minimum, both on obvious humanitarian grounds and also so as not to inflame opposition to the war in Congress, in the press and among the public."

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Theology?

 I was recently challenged as to why be concerned with theology which is basically an attempt to rationalize G-d when we have explicit statements that this is impossible

Yeshaya (55:8-9) 8. For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways, says the Lord.9. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.

Rambam (Melachim 11:07)  Nevertheless, the intent of the Creator of the world is not within the power of man to comprehend, for His ways are not our ways, nor are His thoughts, our thoughts. Ultimately, all the deeds of Jesus of Nazareth and that Ishmaelite who arose after him will only serve to prepare the way for Mashiach's coming and the improvement of the entire world, motivating the nations to serve God together as Tzephaniah 3:9 states: 'I will transform the peoples to a purer language that they all will call upon the name of God and serve Him with one purpose.'

Rambam (Yesodei Haorah (01:10) What did Moses want to comprehend when he requested: "Please show me Your glory" He asked to know the truth of the existence of G-d, to the extent that it could be internalized within his mind, as one knows a particular person whose face he saw and whose image has been engraved within one's heart. Thus, this person's identity is distinguished within one's mind from that of other men. Similarly, Moses asked that the existence of G-d distinguished in his mind from the existence of other entities, to the extent that he would know the truth of His existence as it is in its own right.

In Rav Treibitz's introduction to my Daas Totah he wrote:

G d commands us to study the Torah twice - in Deuteronomy (11:19) and again in Deuteronomy (4:9–11). Each verse, however, is uniquely distinguished by its own internal semantical and syntactical form as well as the context in which it appears. Deuteronomy (11:19) states, “You shall teach the commandments to your children to speak about them, while at home, while traveling on the road, when you lie down to go to sleep and while you rise up.” This verse appears in the description of the reward and punishment which will result from the fulfillment or transgression of the commandments. Consequently, this verse is generally understood to refer to the study of the halachic obligations of the Torah - in all their variegated details. In contrast, Deuteronomy (4:9) concerns the necessity of recalling the monumental events of the giving of the Torah at Sinai. Here the Torah informs the Jewish people, “Be careful for yourself, and guard your soul greatly, not to forget the events that your eyes beheld at Sinai. That is in order that they shouldn’t leave your heart for the rest of your life, and you shall tell them to your children and to your children’s children.”

Ostensibly, the second verse deals with our obligation to effectively communicate the experience of the mass revelation of the Torah at Sinai. It requires us to preserve the memory of the event which constitutes the pivotal historical proof of the truth of the Torah and Moses’ prophecy. However, the Talmudic Sages (Kiddushin 30a) understood the verse to be a command to study the Torah. Furthermore, Nachmanides (Maimonides’ Book of the Commandments) asserts that it is specifically a command to study the “faith of the Torah.”

Consequently, the two verses which obligate us to study the Torah actually refer to two types of study. One refers to the study of the legal part of the Torah, and the other refers to the study of Torah’s theology. Each form of study is deemed a separate scholarly enterprise. Given the fact that each is based on a separate verse, it is incumbent upon us to explore the unique features of each, what they have in common, and their differences. 

In the world of Talmudic and Rabbinical epistemology, the idea itself and how we derive it from its source in the Torah are inextricably intertwined. Therefore, one can explore the nature of a Torah concept, even to its fine details, by careful scrutiny of the verse from which it emerges. Towards this end, it is instructive to compare the two verses with respect to their salient contrasting features. Such an analysis yields three notable distinctions.

LevinAt11-10$to Save a Girl from IDF

 

בס"ד

Fri, Oct 2, '26

ערב שבת, הושענא רבה, תשפ"ז - תהא שנת פדיון זוכות 

Linked* below is this week's LevinAt11 broadcast, of HoShana Rabba, Oct. 1, '26.

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תכנית ראדיו רב יהודה לעוין, שליט"א, הושענא רבה, תשפ"ז

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Tefillah request, for refuah shelaima of:

1. Rav Yehuda ben Masha HaLevi (Levin);

2. Shimon ben Masha; 

3. Lea bas Freeda;  

4. Reuven ben Chava;

5. Yechezkel ben Feiga Zlota;

6. Neryah Dov ben Chana (Leiter).

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Topics Included:

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1. Responding to the concerns over a potential nuclear-armed Iran, shared by the guest of the immediately preceding program ["The Mossad Files"]:  When we stop the public policy rebellion against G-d (Sodomy, abortion-at-whim, etc.) - we can hope for improvements.  Again, Israel is run by gluttons for Divine Punishment.  We insist on doing it to ourselves.

2.  The Torah posits a universal vision for all Mankind, vs. the self-serving tunnel-vision of imposter Jewish leadership.

• See Divrei Yoel (of Rav Yoel Teitelbaum ZT"L) on Parshas Achrei-Mos 18:3, for a glimpse into the authentic position of the Satmar Rov ZY"A - in marked contrast to the self-focused, klein-keppish nonsense spouted by those who undermine his holy legacy - unfortunately, in the very name of perpetuating it.

• We discussed Michah 4:2 as well, timely to Simchas Torah.

3.  Calling out imposter Jewish leadership - not despite the need to respect authentic Torah authority -- but specifically because of it.

4. Looking at Authentic Torah Leadership Today:

• Where are the authentic Torah leaders?  Why are they often silent?  Often it's due to intimidation and threats by those in power.

•  Case-in-Point: The shocking incident about 20 years ago: Why did Rav Moshe Green ZT"L retract his signature from an early Psak against voting for anti-morality candidates? 

He informed me then why: Because of a danger to his life, due to his fragile health.  From whom?  Who would have the temerity to endanger the health of a fragile Zokain?  A prominent Monsey Rabbi, now even more prominent in local chassidic quarters.* (Approx. 45 minutes)

* B"H, since then, as the prohibitions involved in supporting such candidates gained coverage in the tzibbur, Rav Green was able be far more open about his opposition to voting for abomination proponents.

5.  The Subversion of the Sukka: from chanifah of Sukka-hater Cuomo to a Chabad media liaison  exploiting the Sukka for a Mamdani photo-op: https://us.list-manage.com/178QYWgD75W?e=4fa57d7224&c2id=7507e8b297f0910ef6cf61f0cd652d4e.

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6. BREAKING NEWS: Female IDF Draft Update (Giyus Banos)

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- From Chomosayich, an established volunteer women's organization in Israel, which has saved and assisted thousands of girls from the ongoing IDF escalations against "easy-target" girls, over the years.

How far can your donation go in saving girls from falling into the Israeli Army? 

In other words, for how little can save one neshomoh?

For as little as TEN DOLLARS YOU CAN SAVE A TEENAGE GIRL FROM BEING DRAFTED INTO THE EXPLOITATIVE ARMY!

AND GIRLS FURTHER AWAY FROM CHAREIDI CENTERS CAN BE SAVED FOR A MERE 15 DOLLARS.

The cost of saving these neshomos is, in many cases, so low that it's scandalous that we're not seeing far, FAR more donations, although most of the tzibbur is simply being kept in the dark.  That's greatly due to the media blackout.  But it's also because many of those "Shaineh Yidden" who do hear about it fail to properly spread the word.  Too many of us are focused on issues far less important, or too timid to be seen as "controversial."

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Clarification:

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Last week - Erev Sukkos - on just a few hours of notice, via emailed documentation - before we could clarify by phone - we we able to report on yet another (Torah-observant) teenage girl who received a letter from the Israeli Army Draft Office, which appeared to threaten her with arrest - over her refusal to compromise Halacha by appearing before an Army Religiosity-Interrogation.

Subsequently, we clarified that inasmuch as she's below 18, the police generally do not arrest such girls.  Nonetheless, the language of the letter was intimidating in the extreme - as our own initial reading of it confirms.  Who knows how many girls who received such letters promptly caved in to the summons, and submitted to a fatally flawed Rayon-Dat interrogation?!  What about all the girls about whom we never hear, who quietly submit, and eventually are pressured into enlisting?  That's the big-picture tragedy here.

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Last week's program:

ערב סוכות:

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Writeup and supplemental material:

https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2026/09/levinat11-lawler-on-loose.html

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From last week: Mike Lawler:

Here are a few source references to use to help identify the Dark Side of Lawler's legislative record, elements of the public record you won't hear revealed by his Amen-Chorus lobbyists. 

¶ Reference to a post by a media venue therein is not to be construed as any sort of endorsement of that venue, or their views.

Moderate' GOP lawmakers object to defunding Planned Parenthood in Trump's budget bill - LifeSite

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/moderate-gop-lawmakers-object-to-defunding-planned-parenthood-in-trumps-budget-bill/

Four Republicans Help Democrats Secure Vote for Taxpayer-Funded Abortions

https://www.lifenews.com/2025/12/17/four-republicans-help-democrats-secure-vote-for-taxpayer-funded-abortions/

House passes bill to criminalize transgender mutilation of children:

"The bill passed with three Democrats crossing over to support it: Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez of Texas, and Don Davis of North Carolina. At the same time, four Republicans broke ranks to vote against it: Mike Lawler of New York, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Gabe Evans of Colorado, and Mike Kennedy of Utah."

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/house-passes-bill-to-criminalize-transgender-mutilation-of-children/

Rep. Mike Lawler - SBA Pro-Life America Scorecard

https://sbaprolife.org/representative/mike-lawler

https://ivoterguide.com/candidate/71218/race/33825/election/1487

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Broadcast of preceding week, Shabbos Shuva: פרשת האזינו

https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NakbZe_YcarsXKRLaICNfi88uKn7bvA2ZhWWds5s8idw00nUXSCp9M75IL2Zc9Y09vmSxEDO3Kv5EJUlGY9C4S4WYH8mMHfQ4qBQ1ZIlJuA5jStDSDX5sfFAw=s0-d-e1-ft#https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/doclist/images/icon_10_generic_list.png

Write-up:  

https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2026/09/levinat11-shabosshuva.html

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Previous week's broadcast:

 ערב ר"ה

https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NakbZe_YcarsXKRLaICNfi88uKn7bvA2ZhWWds5s8idw00nUXSCp9M75IL2Zc9Y09vmSxEDO3Kv5EJUlGY9C4S4WYH8mMHfQ4qBQ1ZIlJuA5jStDSDX5sfFAw=s0-d-e1-ft#https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/doclist/images/icon_10_generic_list.png

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An initial write-up and brief  overview, w/ supplemental info appears here:

https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2026/09/levinat11-erev-rh-5787.html

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Preceding week's broadcast: נצבים-וילך

Linked here is the LevinAt11 radio broadcast of Sept. 3, '26.*

* https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NakbZe_YcarsXKRLaICNfi88uKn7bvA2ZhWWds5s8idw00nUXSCp9M75IL2Zc9Y09vmSxEDO3Kv5EJUlGY9C4S4WYH8mMHfQ4qBQ1ZIlJuA5jStDSDX5sfFAw=s0-d-e1-ft#https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/doclist/images/icon_10_generic_list.png

An initial write-up and brief analysis/ overview appears here:

https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2026/09/levinat11-blockvote-manipulators-wh.html

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Sept. 10:

 Levin 09-10-2026_HQ.mp3

We extend to our supporters and partners a gutt-kvittel, Good Shabbos and good Yom Tov.

Rabbi Noson Shmuel Leiter,

Executive Director,

Help Rescue Our Children

Email:  torahjewsfordecency@gmail.com

845.642.1679

Direct: 771.215.8892

Israeli Helpline: 03.721.3337

Heard weekly on New Jersey's WSNR Radio 620AM, co-hosting the renowned Levin At Eleven program, every Thursday evening, 11pm to midnight (ET).

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Sept. 17:

 Levin 09-17-2026_HQ.mp3

PS: A published version of last week's letter, Living the Legacy of the Chofetz Chaim, appears (edited) in the current MonseyMevaser.com p.14, 16.

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Broadcast weekly over: Davidzon Radio: davidzonradio.com (718) 303-8000

Sept. 24:

 Levin 09-24-2026_HQ.mp3

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Circulated recently:

יג תשרי, תהא שנת פדיון זוכות

A simple עצה for those seeking גדרי צניעות in electronic communication

When communicating electronically with the opposite gender, when practical, one may prefer to not respond immediately, or to at least send the response on a timed-delay, as in the "schedule send" option for emails.

This delay reduces the sense of a live-time interaction.  The recipient then may feel a bit more like they're responding to the חפצא (object) of the email communication, rather than to the גברא (person) sending it.

When not possible to delay in responding, even a momentary delay, when done as a geder, may help; that too can help maintain a sense of awareness.  (Such brief delays are often beneficial in any case, to avoid errors and impulsive reactions.)

Please feel free to share this.

This is being disseminated for the zechus of all the Bnos Yisroel in Israel currently braving threats of arrest and legal pursuit, over their heroic refusal to submit to Army Draft Office orders to appear at the Draft Office - in the process of seeking a religious exemption (or otherwise).  Likewise, circulated for the merit of those girls silently enduring the indignities of arrest, military tribunal, and incarceration at the hands of the Israeli military police, court and prison system.

May their collective mesiras nefesh for Kedusha and Tzniyus serve to  protect Klal Yisroel from all of our enemies - those threatening us from within and without - in ruchniyus and gashmiyus.

To share in helping assist and rescue such girls, please partner with the established Chomosayich women's volunteer organization. They're silently bearing the burden incumbent on us all.

To donate from the USA, CALL OR TEXT: (347) 661-0172. Please mention where you saw their number.

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TTI

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In The News:

• Is HaShem preparing a series of localized or regional Mabul (Flood) events - for all those nations/ states/ cities/ neighborhoods who arrogantly refuse to learn their lesson?

https://us.list-manage.com/16qsfzUU0j0?e=4fa57d7224&c2id=7507e8b297f0910ef6cf61f0cd652d4e

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• Speaking about Israel being run by gluttons for punishment, it is clear that Netanyahu's militarism fails to realize that the problem isn't Iran - it's our open, unrelenting rebellion against G-d (via public policies like LGBTQ laws and indoctrination, drafting girls, and abortion-at-whim). 

הרבה שלוחים למקום:

"Is Turkey the New Iran?"

https://ctrk.klclick1.com/l/01M3WY90NV87TYC4FA5RPG0RWC_1

We're not certifying any specific claim therein. But the very headline underlines the flawed strategy of the morally-degraded hawks running Israel now.  It also highlights the idiocy of a coterie of Israeli and zionist loudmouths who manage to help foment / instigate enemies.  Foolhardy zionistic hubris and rhetoric can more deadly than terrorist bombs.  Jews didn't survive in Golus for almost two millennia by shooting off their mouths at every  injustice and offense (real or perceived).

(Let's not forget about potential concerns from Pakistan and even Egypt.)

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Relevant to Dr.-"Assisted Suicide" legislation:

https://lifenews.msnd41.com/tracking/lc/ddcdb2b2-e106-4506-9a99-26d4e3a09e87/64bc9f7f-717b-467e-910d-43ee442ed2f1/4493e4d8-5762-2bf6-d318-a3e37b755744/

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We didn't have time to address this  bizarre call for extradition: 

https://us.list-manage.com/2ZSGY865HHA?e=4fa57d7224&c2id=7507e8b297f0910ef6cf61f0cd652d4e

Why would we want to save the attempted mass-murderer from a probable death penalty at the hands of an Arab government embarrassed by his actions, in favor of Israel's revolving door for murderers?

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October 1 Link:

 Levin 10-01-2026_HQ.mp3

Broadcast over:

davidzonradio.com

(718) 303-8000