Netziv (Bereishis 4:19) We have already explained regarding the wife being an Ezer Kenegdo that there are two aspects 1) To be available to fulfill all the husbands's wishes and desires even though they might be mistaken or unhelpful and thus by fully complying with his requests she is actually impeding him 2) she is controlling and opposes his harmful desires and thus she ends up helping him. Lemech picked two wives for these two goals. The first wife was Aidah who blocked his attemot to do foolish things. The second was Tzila who agreed and encourage everything he wanted. Similarly Dovid had two wives Avigail and Michal. Avigail was for this world while Michal was concerned about the next In other words Avigail kept him frim sinning
Saturday, October 18, 2025
Friday, October 17, 2025
Trump claimed India had agreed to stop buying Russian oil. New Delhi says it knows nothing about it
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/17/india/india-us-trump-russia-oil-intl-hnk
Trump on Wednesday said Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had “assured me today that they (India) will not be buying oil from Russia,” which is subject to US sanctions, describing it as a “big step.”
But on Thursday India’s foreign ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal told reporters he was “not aware of any conversation” between Trump and Modi, or any assurance from the Indian leader that he would stop purchasing Russian oil.
Venezuela Mobilizes Troops and Militias as U.S. Military Looms Offshore
https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/venezuela-military-movement-militia-c59ca9ef?mod=hp_lead_pos1
Venezuela is moving troops into position on the Caribbean coast and mobilizing what President Nicolás Maduro asserts is a millions-strong militia in a display of defiance against the biggest American military buildup in the Caribbean since the 1980s.
The strongman’s regime has cranked up its propaganda machine. On state television, radio and social media, announcers are telling Venezuelans that the U.S. is a rapacious Nazi-like state that wants to dig its claws into the country’s oil wealth but that the Venezuelan military, the National Bolivarian Armed Forces, are positioning to repel any invasion
‘Political opposition is not rebellion’: Appeals court rejects Trump’s rationale for Chicago troop deployment
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/16/trump-national-guard-chicago-ruling-00612918
A federal appeals court has extended an order blocking President Donald Trump from deploying National Guard troops in Chicago, saying the administration is unable to show that there is an organized rebellion nor that officials are otherwise unable to uphold law and order in the city.
The panel — which consisted of a Trump appointee, an Obama appointee and a George H. W. Bush appointee — also rejected the administration’s argument that federal courts have no power to review a president’s underlying determinations in deciding to federalize troops. That question of judicial authority has cropped up in several similar lawsuits challenging deployments in Democrat-run cities.
A protest does not transform into a “rebellion” just because protesters are well-organized, advocate to overhaul the structure of government or use civil disobedience, Judges Ilana Rovner, David Hamilton and Amy St. Eve wrote. Nor do isolated incidents of criminality or violence convert a protest into a rebellion or generalized lawlessness, they added.
Inside the FBI hunt for the online predators who persuaded a 13-year-old to die
At first, local police treated Jay Taylor’s death on Jan. 17, 2022, as a suicide. Within days, however, a recording surfaced that revealed something more sinister. Jay’s hanging had been live-streamed on Instagram while online users watched.
The case would thrust investigators into the darkest corners of the internet — forums where groups of online predators manipulate vulnerable children, extorting them to share nude photos, mutilate their bodies and, in the worst cases, kill themselves. As the case dragged on, the FBI would come to view these groups as a terrorist threat, estimating that their members have targeted thousands of children. The agency is now investigating almost 300 people suspected of preying on children and other vulnerable people, cases that involve all 55 of its field offices.
Trump Gaza plan on verge of collapse, warns Saudi Arabia and UAE
Arab and American sources have confirmed that the Sunni axis, which also includes Bahrain, has warned the White House that the Trump Gaza plan is in danger of falling apart. "As long as Hamas retains its weapons, we will not continue with the process," the message states. Communications sent to Washington argue that the leniency shown by mediators has allowed the terrorist organization to evade its obligations.
The John Bolton Indictment
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-john-bolton-indictment-f4e5aab6?mod=hp_opin_pos_1
Opposing Donald Trump is a perilous business, but working for him can be equally as dangerous. That’s one lesson from Thursday’s indictment of Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton for mishandling classified documents.
A federal grand jury in Maryland indicted Mr. Bolton on eight counts of transmitting national defense information and 10 counts of retaining such information.
Why Hamas remains the greatest threat to Trump’s Gaza plan
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/17/politics/hamas-israel-gaza-mcgurk-analysis
But what about Hamas in the areas above the yellow line? Trump’s deal says that even there the group must disarm and cannot remain in power in any capacity. This week, Trump has made clear he intends to hold to that, warning on Thursday that if Hamas keeps killing people in Gaza, “We will have no choice but to go in and kill them.”
This is where the way forward becomes extremely difficult. Because Hamas is not just a terrorist group that hides out to plot attacks into Israel; it is the entrenched political and security apparatus for all of Gaza and has spent the last two decades ensuring that there can be no Palestinian challenger to its reign.
Mr. President: Hamas is not listening to your threats
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/416382
But despite what Trump is saying, that wasn’t Hamas’s response. Their answer to his demands was “yes, but … ,” not a blanket agreement.
They agreed to release all of the living hostages right away. But they said that the terms of their disarmament and surrender of power would have to be subject to later negotiations. that the hostages are back home and the posters with their faces (so often torn down or vandalized by pro-Hamas thugs) are being taken down, the American peacemakers must confront the fact that Hamas has no intention of being disarmed, let alone giving up Gaza to some sort of theoretical technocratic and international government.
Full List of Young Republicans Involved in Offensive Chats
https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-young-republicans-involved-in-offensive-chats-10881250
A number of Young Republicans have been implicated in a scandal over racist, antisemitic and misogynistic comments in leaked chat messages.
Politico obtained 2,900 pages of exchanges over seven months among a dozen Young Republican leaders in New York, Kansas, Arizona and Vermont. Many of these young politicians are now facing calls to step down.
Some of those involved referred to Black people as monkeys, opponents in gas chambers, and spoke of raping enemies.
'Chanoch the Shoemaker': The Righteousness of the Tzadik - On the Name of Rabbi Salanter in the Book "Letter from Elijah" / Rabbi Yosef Halevi Shisha
Google translation the English version is missing 90% of the article.
On the words of R. Y. Salanter in the book "Letter from Elijah"
In the book 'Letter from Elihu' by the Gaon Rabbi A.A. Dessler (Volume 1, Kontras HaChesed, p. 34), it is written in Zahl: In the Torah it is written, "And Enoch walked with God," and the Sages said, "For Enoch was a shoemaker, and for every sewing and tailoring he would set apart unique things for his maker" (see Midrash Talpiot, Enoch). And I heard in the name of our Rabbi Israel of Salant, zt"l, who explained this article in a nice way, and said that it does not mean that while he was sewing he was attached to higher thoughts, which is forbidden according to the law, because how could he turn his mind to something else while he was engaged in the work of others who had hired him? Rather, it is the content of the special things that he was special about, that he set his heart and mind on every sewing and sewing that it would be good and strong, that the shoemakers would be good, so that he would benefit from them when he disappeared. Thus did Enoch adhere to the virtue of his Creator, which would benefit and benefit others, and thus did he distinguish special things for himself, because Enoch did not desire anything else except the one object and the special aspiration to adhere to the virtue of his Creator, etc. Aisha.
And according to the wording of this story that I found, I proved in the wording that the conclusions from the original text are not against the Gries, but against a wording of a story that is not at all accurate, and the righteousness of the righteous man remains in its place.
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
High Priest not enter the Holy of Holies clad in the golden garments Why?
Vayikra Rabbah (21:10) For what reason did the High Priest not enter the Holy of Holies clad in the golden garments? Because the accuser cannot act as defender. It was in order that no opportunity might be given to Satan of bringing accusations and saying: ' The other day they made for themselves a god of gold and to-day they seek to officiate in garments of gold! R. Joshua of Siknin in the name of R. Levi says: It was in order to save Israel expenses.
Fury grows in Israel over delayed release of deceased hostages
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/14/middleeast/israel-dead-hostages-release-anger-latam-intl
Under the ceasefire deal, Hamas had until 12:00 local time (4 a.m. ET) Monday to hand over all hostages to Israel – alive and deceased. Only four of the deceased – Guy Illouz, Yossi Sharabi, Bipin Joshi and Daniel Peretz – were released that evening.
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