Mishmar Parshas Vayera with Rabbi Dovid Hojda at Scheiner's Shul

LevinAt11 Bill Weber for Senate

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ע"ש פרשת וירא, תשפ"ז, "... ונדעה אותם"

Linked below* is this week's pre-election radio broadcast of LevinAt11, Oct. 29, '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

תכנית ראדיו רב יהודה לעוין, שליט"א, פרשת וירא

Topics Covered: 

Elections in our Communities: The Good, the Bad, and the Unconscionable.

• Of the most important races which we could easily influence is that for State Senate (District 38), between incumbent Bill Weber (R) and Joe Rand (D/ LGBT).* 

See the full-page ad in this week's MonseyMevaser.com, page 25, featuring a Rabbinic statement directing the tzibbur to oppose Assisted-"Suicide"/ Euthanasia legislation by all means available. [Psak posted here: https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2025/05/psak-halacha.html ]

The ad urges support for Senator Bill Weber - for his advocacy against the measure.  It also urges opposition to all those who helped pass the lethal legislation in NY State, including Gov. Hochul (along with many legislators, including those representing Orthodox communities in NYC, Rockland, KJ (Sen. Skoufis and Asmb. Eachus), Sullivan (Assemblywoman Paula Kay), and Westchester).

For more information, or to share feedback: Rabbi Noson Shmuel Leiter, Help Rescue Our Children:  torahjewsfordecency@gmail.com.

* Below is also a bit of information on KJ's democratic state senator Skoufis (D/ LGBT/ Assisted-Suicide), who's also running, unfortunately.

** On page 9 of the Mevaser, there's a Hebrew clarification letter of interest from Rabbi Chaim Schabes.

Fair Use: 

https://dailyvoice.com/article/rand-sells-nyack-property-to-rockland-county-pride-group/

Rand Sells Nyack Property To Rockland County Pride Group

NYACK, N.Y. -- Rand Commercial is pleased to announce it has sold a property at 28 South Franklin St. in Nyack, NY, which will be used as the Rockland County Pride Center.

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 Tom Renner

09/18/2016 6:00 p.m.

“This is an incredible moment in social justice history,” said Brooke Malloy, executive director of Rockland County Pride. “The Pride Center will be a cornerstone for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender affirmation and inclusivity in Rockland County, a safe place for all youths, adults, seniors, and families to gather, find support, make new friends, access resources, and feel at home.”

The newly formed Rockland County Pride organization needed a home for its community center and headquarters, and with the “pro bono” assistance of Rand Commercial’s Joseph Rand and Paul Adler, the acquisition of this property made that dream a reality for the LGBTQ population in Rockland.

Rockland County Pride is temporarily housed in the Nyack office of Better Homes and Gardens Rand Realty until their permanent home is ready for occupancy and use. ...

“This project has been a labor of love, and I’m honored to have been a part of it,” said Adler, regional manager for Rand Commercial and board of directors member for the Rockland County Pride Center. “

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“I don’t think I’ve ever been prouder of something our company has done for a worthy non-profit like Rockland County Pride,” said Rand, managing partner for Rand Commercial. “Over the years, this organization has become a significant factor in the ever-growing diversity of Rockland, and I’m thankful for the work they do to provide support for the individuals of our local LGBTQ community.”

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Also see:

Fair Use: ( emphasis added )

https://www.facebook.com/joseph.rand/posts/congratulations-to-my-friend-senator-james-skoufis-on-receiving-the-lgbtq-access/1788689575789258/

Joe Rand for State Senate

July 1 ·

Congratulations to my friend Senator James Skoufis on receiving the LGBTQ+ Access to Justice Distinguished Leadership Award yesterday at the Rockland County Courthouse from the Ninth Judicial District. He has been a staunch supporter of our Pride communities throughout the Hudson Valley, and we are all very grateful for his wonderful work as a legislator and community leader.

Congratulations also to the other honorees, the Duchess Community Pride Center and the Hon. Hector D. Lasalle of the Appellate Division, Second Department. Well-deserved.

My thanks to the Ninth Judicial District for putting the ceremony together."

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•  Thematic to the synchronization of the elections with the Parsha, please see the post of Yossi Gestetner, on his argument to abandon Senator Bill Weber in favor of Joe Rand - out of his unabashed affinity for Benjamin Franklin, and that which bears his image.  It's apparent from the Akaidas Yitzchak on this week's Parsha (20) that such a post would have had Gestetner and his funding- obsessed teleprompter expelled from Sodom - a town which would never have tolerated flagrant deviants like Rand, or their enablers. One benefit of such embarrassingly anti-Torah posts is the sharp pushback provided by commenters.

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The Real-Estate Industry Strikes Yet Again:

Bloc-vote manipulation continues - and in the traditional manner - in the service of the bipartisan* LGBT/ abortion-at-whim/ trafficking movement:

* Regardless of what one feels is necessary to do to secure a maximum number of Republicans in Congress, voters need to realize that Mike Lawler is one of the most pro-LGBT Republicans in Congress, as we've shown on previous broadcasts and in various postings. He's also on record as opposed to a national prohibition on abortion-at-whim.

https://monseyscoop.com/belzer-kehilla-and-mosdos-in-monsey-endorse-lawler-rand-and-wieder-ahead-of-november-elections/

https://monseyscoop.com/viznitzer-kehila-and-voting-committee-endorse-mike-lawler-joe-rand-aron-wieder-and-other-democratic-candidates-ahead-of-november-elections/

https://monseyscoop.com/bobov-kehilla-leaders-from-brooklyn-and-rockland-unite-to-back-lawler-rand-and-wieder/ 

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Related Items of Interest:

Avi Schnall (the unsung CEO of "Aid In Dying" passage in NJ; as described in detail in previous broadcasts) endorsed Brooklyn democratic candidate Joey Saban:

https://cbnunfiltered.com/agudah-coo-avi-schnall-discusses-electing-frum-representatives/

In wake of that, and last week's expose' (The Benjamin Franklin Cult: Don't let any cognitive Yid fall for the latest endorsement of pro- LGBTQ/pro-death Hochul: https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2026/10/agudas-latest-chillul-hashem.html), marvel at the sophistry of Chaskel Bennett, in "A Seat at the Table. A Line in the Sand," MonseyMevaser.com, p.64, 67 (feedback:  ChaskelBennett@gmail.com).

In a word-salad that appears to spit its' dressing back in your face, Aguda's surrogate obfuscator challenges the boundaries of cognition, without fear of readers actually employing critical thinking. (Committing the latter would undoubtedly violate "Da'as Torah," as they've undefined it.)

Purporting to boldly confront legitimate critiques of Aguda's standing policy of selling out Torah principles for material gain, Bennett heroically performs the best he can, via concatenated, strident talking-points, that delude the casual, Beta-state reader into thinking he actually addresses said objections -- while actually demonstrating how much he cannot.

The end of the article humbly assures the devout vaping in this material that Bennett is a "nationally recognized Jewish communal leader and advocate."  A careful read reveals which specific illusionist performance skills have apparently earned him that distinction.

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

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For more information, or to share feedback: Rabbi Noson Shmuel Leiter, Help Rescue Our Children:  torahjewsfordecency@gmail.com.

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Link to Parshas VaYaira broadcast Oct 30, 2026:

 Levin 10-29-2026_HQ.mp3

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Last week's broadcast and write-up:

https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2026/10/agudas-latest-chillul-hashem.html

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Previous week: https://daattorah.blogspot.com/2026/10/levinat11-10-15-2026-broadcast.html

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Jewish Philosophy - Skepticism

A distinguished talmid chachom rosh yeshiva once told me that David Hume was the most Jewish of all philosophers.  He was known as the great skeptic who destroyed the basis of psychology, religion but also science and even the concept of causality. Ultimately saying everything was the result of belief not reason and logic.

"David Hume (1711–1776) at the age of twenty-six shocked all Christendom with his highly heretical Treatise on Human Nature,—one of the classics and marvels of modern philosophy. We know the mind, said Hume, only as we know matter: by perception, though it be in this case internal. Never do we perceive any such entity as the “mind”; we perceive merely separate ideas, memories, feelings, etc. The mind is not a substance, an organ that has ideas; it is only an abstract name for the series of ideas; the perceptions, memories and feelings are the mind; there is no observable “soul” behind the process of thought. 

The result appeared to be that Hume had as effectually destroyed mind as Berkeley had destroyed matter. Nothing was left; and philosophy found itself in the midst of ruins of its own making. No wonder that a wit advised the abandonment of the controversy, saying: “No matter, never mind.” 

But Hume was not content to destroy orthodox religion by dissipating the concept of soul; he proposed also to destroy science by dissolving the concept of law. Science and philosophy alike, since Bruno and Galileo, had been making much of natural law, of “necessity” in the sequence of effect upon cause; Spinoza had reared his majestic metaphysics upon this proud conception. But observe, said Hume, that we never perceive causes, or laws; we perceive events and sequences, and infer causation and necessity; a law is not an eternal and necessary decree to which events are subjected, but merely a mental summary and shorthand of our kaleidoscopic experience; we have no guarantee that the sequences hitherto observed will re-appear unaltered in future experience. “Law” is an observed custom in the sequence of events; but there is no “necessity” in custom. Only mathematical formulas have necessity—they alone are inherently and unchangeably true; and this merely because such formulae are tautological—the predicate is already contained in the subject; “3 X 3 = 9” is an eternal and necessary truth only because “3 X 3” and “9” are one and the same thing differently expressed; the predicate adds nothing to the subject. Science, then, must limit itself strictly to mathematics and direct experiment; it cannot trust to unverified deduction from “laws.” “When we run through libraries, persuaded of these principles,” writes our uncanny sceptic, “what havoc must we make! If we take in our hands any volume of school metaphysics, for instance, let us ask, ‘Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?’ No. ‘Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?’ No. Commit it then to the flames, for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.”4" "Imagine how the ears of the orthodox tingled at these words. Here the epistemological tradition—the inquiry into the nature, sources, and validity of knowledge—had ceased to be a support to religion; the sword with which Bishop Berkeley had slain the dragon of materialism had turned against the immaterial mind and the immortal soul; and in the turmoil science itself had suffered severe injury. No wonder that when Immanuel Kant, in 1775, read a German translation of the works of David Hume, he was shocked by these results, and was roused, as he said, from the “dogmatic slumber” in which he had assumed without question the essentials of religion and the bases of science. Were both science and faith to be surrendered to the sceptic? What could be done to save them?"

Start reading this book for free: https://read.amazon.com/kp/kshare?asin=B0CQLH69CF&ref_=kar_wh_ca

Skepticism

Lawrence: Trump boasts about passing the one test you're never supposed to boast about passing

Israel’s election yielded a stalemate. Which means Netanyahu won

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/israels-election-yielded-a-stalemate-which-means-netanyahu-has-won/

The anti-Netanyahu parties — Jewish and Arab — secured most of the seats in the Knesset, but they do not have the means to translate that into even a minority government. The failure is staggering, and may echo long into Israel’s future

There seems to be some confusion about the result of Israel’s election, specifically as regards who won.

That’s somewhat understandable. Neither of the two main rival camps secured a Knesset majority.

But it’s also incorrect. The election, and the stalemate, leave one clear winner: Benjamin Netanyahu.

October 28, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

There seems to be some confusion about the result of Israel’s election, specifically as regards who won.

That’s somewhat understandable. Neither of the two main rival camps secured a Knesset majority.

But it’s also incorrect. The election, and the stalemate, leave one clear winner: Benjamin Netanyahu.

How so? Simply because he does not have to do anything in order to retain power — not to concede anything, not to compromise on anything.

And that’s because the political forces arrayed against him have no realistic means of ousting him.

Trump's quiet ultimatum to Israel: Form a unity government

 https://www.israelhayom.com/2026/10/29/trumps-quiet-ultimatum-to-israel-form-a-unity-government/

With the actual vote count leaving Israel's political future uncertain, the White House is sending an urgent message to Israeli leaders: Form a stable coalition that can advance a major diplomatic initiative. A senior US administration official warns that the window of opportunity will close in about two years, after which Israel's struggle for survival will become far more difficult. "Trump is hardly known for his diplomatic niceties, and when the time is right, he will use whatever influence is needed."

Officials in Washington believe US President Donald Trump will actively push for the formation of a broad-based government in Israel. Two weeks ago, Israel Hayom revealed that messages conveyed by Washington to senior Israeli party officials made clear that this was the president's preferred outcome, as he seeks to secure Israeli support for his sweeping diplomatic initiative in the Middle East.

In other words, Trump is making sure Israeli leaders understand his clear preferences. When the time comes, he intends to apply the pressure necessary to turn those preferences into reality.

Israel’s election ended in deadlock. Here are four ways out

 https://edition.cnn.com/2026/10/29/middleeast/israels-election-deadlock-four-scenarios-vis-intl

Israel faces weeks, possibly months, of political limbo after final results show there’s no clear winner in its elections.

Neither of the two main blocs – one led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party, the other led by the centrist Yashar party of his main rival, Gadi Eisenkot – have reached the required 61-seat majority to form a government in Israel’s 120-seat parliament.

With all votes counted, Netanyahu’s bloc has 53 seats, Eisenkot’s 48, Arab parties 19

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/with-all-votes-counted-netanyahus-bloc-at-53-seats-eisenkots-48-arab-parties-19/

Official turnout was 77.9%, with 5,716,665 total votes cast; Central Elections Committee reiterates that investigation into alleged voter fraud ‘will not affect final results’

The final voter turnout was 77.9% of eligible voters — the highest figure in decades — with 5,716,665 votes cast.

The final results give Likud 27 seats, Yashar 21, B’Yachad 12, the Joint List 11, The Democrats 8, Ra’am 8, Yisrael Beytenu 7, United Torah Judaism 7, Otzma Yehudit 7, Shas 6 and Religious Zionism 6.

Hegseth’s team forces out another top Pentagon general, officials say

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/10/29/hegseths-team-forces-out-lt-gen-brett-sylvia-officials-say/

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and his team have forced out another top general at the Pentagon, the latest in a long-running purge of senior military officials, four people familiar with the matter said.

Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia served as director for strategy, plans and policy on the Joint Staff, reporting to Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Caine’s staff released a statement Wednesday night thanking Sylvia for his 32 years of service, without explaining what precipitated his departure.

Hegseth’s team did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Since becoming defense secretary last year, he has removed dozens of senior military leaders but seldom discloses his rationale.

Obama on Trump's reaction to Cheesecake Factory joke: He wasn't 'upset' by Saddam Hussein reference

With 90% of votes counted, Netanyahu bloc has 53 seats, Eisenkot’s 48; Arab parties surge to 19

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/with-85-of-votes-counted-netanyahu-bloc-has-53-seats-eisenkots-48-arab-parties-surge-to-19/

The Central Election Committee (CEC) said Wednesday afternoon that with 89.8 percent of ballots counted, the bloc led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was poised to win 53 seats in the 120-member Knesset, and the bloc led by Yashar party chair Gadi Eisenkot would win 48 seats, leaving both blocs far from a 61-seat majority.

The picture that was emerging by Wednesday evening was different from the one that had been painted in most mainstream polls in the weeks and months leading up to the election, which had almost all shown Eisenkot’s bloc taking the lead over Netanyahu’s with varying margins, though similarly without anyone having a clear path to a coalition.

The full vote count was therefore due to be released on Thursday afternoon. The final, official election results are expected to be published on November 4.

Trump’s babysitting of Netanyahu puts the US in charge on Gaza

 https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/23/middleeast/analysis-trump-bibisitting-netanyahu-gaza-latam-intl

An American official called it “Bibi-sitting” – a revolving door of the highest-ranking members of the Trump administration to make sure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, frequently known as “Bibi,” sticks to the US-brokered ceasefire deal.

“We intend to stay engaged every single day to make sure peace takes hold,” Vance said at a news conference on Tuesday, unveiling a new US coordination center to monitor and assess real-time developments of the Gaza ceasefire deal.

Trump says he saved Netanyahu from crushing election defeat - now, he wants influence

 https://www.jpost.com/israel-election-2026/article-913131

From Gaza to Syria and Lebanon, Trump wants an Israeli government that advances his regional ambitions, even if it means sidelining Ben-Gvir and Smotrich.

US President Donald Trump rushed to claim credit for Netanyahu’s election performance, even before it became clear whether the prime minister could form a government. But behind the celebration lies an important diplomatic message: The man who helped keep you in the game may also get to set the rules.

The most important sentence came at the end: “It all took place after the endorsement by President Trump, who only wants what is good for the Middle East, Israel, and the United States of America!”

Alexander brothers sentenced after women speak of being drugged, raped by them

https://fox8.com/news/alexander-brothers-sentenced-after-women-speak-of-being-drugged-raped-by-them/

Three brothers convicted of leveraging their wealthy lifestyle to drug and rape dozens of women were each sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison after one victim described her attack as an “eternity of terror” and the judge slammed their behavior as shameful, degenerate and monstrous.

Oren Alexander said he and his brothers came of age at the height of hookup culture and Howard Stern’s hypersexualized radio show. Looking back as a father, he said he regrets many of the things he said about women at that time. However, he insisted that they never broke the law.

All three brothers stressed their Jewish faith. Oren Alexander, wearing a yarmulke, said that even with the minimum 15-year sentence the defense sought, he’d miss his son’s bar mitzvah.

The brothers were unanimously convicted in March following a trial that lasted several weeks and included testimony from 11 women. According to prosecutors, the brothers used their wealth, status and access to luxury properties over more than two decades to lure women to parties, trips and vacation destinations, including mansions in the Hamptons and ski resorts in Aspen. There, some of the women were raped and sexually assaulted, in certain cases after being drugged.