13 October 2026
"VOICE FROM THE WORLD OF EMMES"
"The truth is, the army top-brass has knowingly continued to send soldiers into unnecessarily dangerous situations, the top brass willfully failed to act on Oct 7th, and yet the dati-leumi continues to see it as their duty to serve them, even if it leaves them as amputees, permanently traumatized, or dead.
"The dati-leumi knows this; dati-leumi generals (like Oren Solomon) widely expose this, yet they and their rabbis continue to insist on army service and going into battle, even though they are so well aware that the top-brass willfully endangers them.
"Feeling increasingly frustrated and angry at them for this.
"Rav Dov Landau is also frustrated with their seeming lack of consideration for Jewish life and limb.
Jewish minds matter
Jewish limbs matter
Jewish lives matter
"How sad that so many people refuse to at least try and understand what Rav Landau is saying. He is expressing profound Ahavas Yisrael."
Source: Anonymous
Hatzibur HaCharedi Mega Conference Motzei Shabbat, October 17.
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El Niño? El Niña?
The El Niño That Killed 50 Million People Is Back
What Comes After a Super El Niño Is Worse
Reb Sones: New Book
New Book: Up From Zionism!
Prescriptions for Jewish Survival in Articles, Special Reports, and Letters, 1995–2026
My book, Up From Zionism!, is due out from Mazo Publishers in the second half of November.
It brings together 147 of my articles, special reports and letters, from 1995 to this year. Most of them first appeared at Jewish Home News; others at Arutz Sheva, Beis Moshiach and Frontline News, and several are letters and special reports from my years at the Nachaliel Office for Yesha. Steve Rodan wrote the Foreword.
I have put up a page where you can reserve a copy. There is no charge, and you will get one email from me when the book is out, with the formats, the prices and where to order it. The Foreword, my Introduction and the title essay are on the page in full, along with two other pieces.
Rabbi Yaakov Asher
Rabbi Yaakov Asher attacks the Attorney General: She is political and wants to bring down the Rig...
This video is auto-dubbed and thst voice is awful. I turned it off. Trll themyou want to hear the original. https://www.youtube.com/@בקודש-פנימה
United Torah Judaism Chairman MK Yaakov Asher in a speech ahead of the elections in Kiryat Ata.
Attacks the attorney general "She is political and wants to overthrow the right, and therefore demands the arrests of yeshiva students during elections."
Emphasized the fateful struggle of the elections "The left wants to erase the Haredi public, but the people are not there, they are a strong handful together with the media."
#Shorts #TorahJudaism #YaakovAsher
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“ […]God gives us an opportunity to sanctify His name….”
From prior elections (sorry about certain translations)
👑 In the elections, God gives us an opportunity to sanctify His name: The cry of the leader, Rabb...
THERE ARE MANY VOICES CLAIMING YOUR “EAR”……
Some say it straight out their intentions
Others cloak their subterfuge with smooth sounding words
But we can only trust our Sages
As we have done for thousands of years
Dont be fooled by those others’ “logic”
and “subtle persuasions” of now our mission is different.
We all want Mashiach
And the Third Beis haMikdash
But it is HKB”H Who will release him
Once Am Yisroel is “ready”
12 October 2026
Shalom Pollack: Elections
We thought some things would definitely change after the October 7 massacres.
How could they not?
We thought that after the largest, most brutal act of murder, rape, and humiliation visited upon Jews since the Holocaust, it would jar the souls of every Jew.
We thought.
A few months ago, on Memorial Day, "Progressive" Jews in Israel commemorated the memory of our murdered brothers and sisters, together with the families of the Arab "martyrs" who murdered us.
This has become popular in "enlightened" circles.
After all, who is to judge which pain is greater?
We must never stop feeling others' pain.
Isn't that true Judaism?
If we thought this disease would be cured with the harsh medicine of Oct. 7, we were mistaken.
The progressive "alternate" Memorial commemoration challenged the official, national one
For the oh so, democratic auto-Semites in Israel, there is no longer a democratically elected government - if it is too Jewish and not "theirs".
It follows that the national, official memorial (or any other) for Oct. 7 is also not legitimate.
We must accept the fact that there truly are no boundaries when it comes to auto-anti-Semitism, whether in NY or Tel Aviv.
It is not going away.
Hopefully they will either do "teshuva" or fully assimilate and leave our people in peace in NY; and at home, do "relocation," and let us get on with the job in the Jewish state.
This election touches on many issues, but it comes down to the most crucial and elemental:
Who are we?
Why are we here?
Have we really lost the ability to recognize brother from foe?
I will not recommend who to vote for, because I never get involved in politics.
May the results be a blessing for the Jews and not for our enemies.
2,000-year-old aqueduct that supplied water to Temple Mount uncovered in Jerusalem
[.....near where they are to build a new Jerusalem neighborhood]
A Great Historical Debate…..
New York (VINNEWS) Footage of a private conversation held by HaGaon HaRav Dov Landau, shlit”a, Rosh Yeshivas Slabodka in Bnei Brak and the senior spiritual leader of the Lithuanian Torah world in Eretz Yisroel, was broadcast on Monday by Israel’s N12 news. The remarks were made during the war in the Rosh Yeshiva’s home, in a small, closed gathering of rabbonim, and were not intended for public release.
The full context of the conversation is not known. Neither the length of the original discussion nor the questions that prompted the Rosh Yeshiva’s comments were made public.
A Long-Standing Hashkafah
In the footage, the Rosh Yeshiva, now 96, reflects on what might have been had the State not been established in its secular form. He suggests that under the United Nations, or even under Arab rule, the physical situation of the Jewish people in Eretz Yisroel might have been better. He also expresses the view that the Zionist movement contributed to Arab hostility toward Jews, and that it brought physical, not only spiritual, harm upon Klal Yisroel.
Those familiar with the history of the Torah world will recognize these themes. The concern that a secular national movement would provoke the nations, and would replace Torah with nationalism as the center of Jewish identity, was voiced by many of the leading gedolim of previous generations. Among them were the Brisker Rav and the Chazon Ish. Many trace this concern to the Gemara in Kesubos (111a), which speaks of the oaths that Klal Yisroel not ascend “as a wall” and not provoke the nations. Rav Landau’s remarks reflect that tradition. They should be understood as a hashkafic assessment, not as an expression of any warmth toward those who seek to harm Jews.
The Protective Power of Torah
The Rosh Yeshiva emphasized his conviction that the Torah learning of yeshiva students is what protects the land and its inhabitants. He noted that, in his view, there is otherwise no explanation for why enemy forces have not overrun the country. This is rooted in the Gemara in Sotah (21a), that Torah both shields and rescues, and in Bava Basra (7b–8a), which states that talmidei chachamim do not require guarding because their Torah protects them.
On Those Who Fall
The remark that drew the sharpest reaction concerned soldiers killed in battle. In the footage, the Rosh Yeshiva says that those who are killed fall “because we are not learning enough.” Read carefully, the statement is not an accusation against the fallen. It places the responsibility on the Torah community itself: “we.” This follows the teaching of Chazal (Berachos 5a) that when suffering comes, a person must first examine his own deeds. It is a call for greater Torah learning, not a judgment upon those who gave their lives.
The Rosh Yeshiva also expressed disagreement with the approach of the Religious Zionist rabbinic leadership. He suggested that some fight for the honor of the State rather than solely to save lives. This is a disagreement in hashkafah that has divided the Torah world and the Religious Zionist community for generations.
If the Robbers Save Us”
The Rosh Yeshiva also addressed the relationship between the chareidi community and the State. He used a sharp metaphor, comparing it to living among robbers who nonetheless protect those around them, and asked, “What can we do?” The remark reflects the complex reality felt by many in the Torah world: deep reservations about the secular foundations of the State, alongside a recognition that its security forces are in fact protecting them. The Rosh Yeshiva also spoke with pain about secular Israelis’ distance from Yiddishkeit. He described the establishment of a state on a secular basis as a chillul Hashem.
Reaction
The broadcast drew criticism from Israeli politicians, including opposition figures. They objected to the Rosh Yeshiva’s characterization of Zionism and to his comments regarding Religious Zionist soldiers. The timing of the release, in the midst of election season, was noted by several observers.
Rav Landau serves as the spiritual leader of Degel HaTorah, a component of United Torah Judaism, which is part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition. He became the senior leader of the Lithuanian Torah world after the petirah of HaGaon HaRav Gershon Edelstein, zt”l. He is revered by tens of thousands of talmidim and followers for his greatness in Torah, his humility, and his lifetime of devotion to the yeshiva world.
Readers comments:
*Rav Landau is an adam gadol who certainly does not need anyone’s haskama to voice his opinion, and we need to be careful to conduct such a discussion with the proper respect. That being said, I would agree with Educated and others who have pointed out that this is not a new issue, and that many gedolim and tzaddikim held differently. I would also add that after the Holocaust, from 1945 to 1948, there were close to half a million Jewish displaced persons in Europe, many of whom had nowhere to go and no country willing to take them in. Then, with Hashem’s help, the State of Israel was established and welcomed them with open arms. Yereim and shleimim, together with Jews of all backgrounds, danced in the streets when the state was declared. It would require quite a bit of speculation to maintain that the state of Torah and Yiddishkeit in Eretz Yisroel today would be anything resembling what it is now had the country come under Arab rule.
* Whoever leaked private conversation to secular media is surely going to pay for every single negative comment that ever surfaces. Obviously secular people don’t value the Torah and don’t understand the concept of a soul being more important than the body. It will all be misinterpreted even by many people here and that is all caused by the person who spread it first
* Rav Landau makes a completely reasonable argument.
Jews in London do not need hundreds or thousands of dead British Jews to keep Jews safe. Jews in America do not need Jewish boys dying to protect Jewish neighborhoods.
If the price of a Jewish state is that Jews must constantly die to protect Jews, then asking what exactly was gained by statehood is not absurd. It is the obvious question.
* The struggle between Zionism and Torah Jewry is not merely a political disagreement. It is one of the deepest spiritual clarifications of the final generation. It is a struggle over the very meaning of the Jewish people, the meaning of Eretz Yisroel, and the meaning of redemption.
The Torah teaches[1] that Klal Yisroel is not a nation like the nations. The Jewish people were not created by land, language, army, government, or culture. Klal Yisroel was created by Hashem at Har Sinai. Its existence is bound to Torah. Its mission is kedushah. Its future is Geulah. Therefore, whenever Jewish identity is separated from Torah and redefined as secular nationalism, the foundation of Jewish existence is distorted.The land of Eretz Yisroel is holy beyond measure. Yerushalayim is the heart of the world. The Beis HaMikdash is the place of the Shechinah. Every loyal Jew yearns for the return to Zion and prays daily for the rebuilding of Yerushalayim. But the holiness of Eretz Yisroel cannot be separated from Hashem. The land is not an ordinary homeland. It is the palace of the King. To enter the palace while rejecting the King is not redemption.
This is the root of the Torah opposition to secular Zionism. The opposition is not to Eretz Yisroel. It is not to Yerushalayim. It is not to Jewish life in the land. Torah Jews lived in Eretz Yisroel long before modern Zionism. They built batei midrash, kollelim, communities of kedushah, and a life of tefillah and yearning. The opposition is to the ideology that took the holy longing for Geulah and changed it into political nationalism.
Modern Zionism arose in the atmosphere of European nationalism. Theodor Herzl, the founder of political Zionism, organized the First Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897 and presented the Jewish question as a political problem requiring a political state. This was the essence of the new ideology: Jewish suffering would be solved not by teshuvah, Mashiach, Torah, and Divine redemption, but by sovereignty, diplomacy, settlement, and national power. From the Torah view, this was not Geulah. It was a replacement for Geulah.
* Jewish men have been full time learners since the very beginning. Does anyone believe Reb Dovid the Shoemaker, Reb Chaim the Butcher or Reb Zanvil the Carpenter ever worked?
* Rabbi Dr. Joseph Ber Soloveichik stated that the founding of the State of Israel is responsible for the massive increase in Arab hate of Jews.
Source for all: https://vinnews.com/2026/10/05/top-israeli-haredi-rabbi-arab-rule-would-have-been-better-zionism-brought-disasters-onto-jews/
Rabbi Miller zt"l – Parshas Beraishis: Perfection in Paradise
Wisdom from Toras Avigdor and Rabbi Avigdor Miller zt”l
Parshas Braishis: Perfection in Paradise
[...] That’s what Reish Lakish tells us about the Next World.
He comes along with a chiddush that…….–
in the Afterlife, there is no especial thing called Gehinnom
(Avodah Zarah 3b). Now, nobody should be relieved
when they hear that, because Reish Lakish is going to
tell us of a big fiery Gehinnom, only it’s not what we think.
What’s going to be? -
Hakadosh Baruch Hu will take the sun out of its sheath, וּמַקְִדִּיר
– and it will shine very powerfully. The sun, you have to know,
is encased in a big sheath. You never see the sun. Take a look
tomorrow through smoky glasses. You think you see the sun?
What you see is a very thick envelope of gases — melted,
vaporized metals — around the sun.
But the sun itself you cannot see. And you're lucky,
because if the sun would be revealed, the heat would come
through overpoweringly. We are protected against the
direct rays of the sun by this sheath.
That's what the Gemara says.
But in the Afterlife, Hakadosh Baruch Hu takes the sun out
of its sheath and He lets it shine. And,…….– the
reshaim will suffer from it, ……..– while the
tzaddikim are going to be cured; they're going to feel
beneficia effects from that heat
And we’ll understand this as follows.
In the Afterlife, it’s not temperature that counts,
it’s knowledge that counts. In the World to Come,
the light of the truth will be taken out of its sheath of
falsehood that conceals the truth in this world,
and then everybody will see what's what.
And that knowledge can be the most
delectable ecstasy — and it also can be the
greatest, the most excruciating pain.
When Hakadosh Baruch Hu shows the light of the
truth to us when we leave this world, so the reshaim
will see how they have ruined their opportunity.
They’ll see how wonderful this world was,
how good it was to be born. “How happy I could
have been…………
And the reshaim forever and ever will be sorry.......
– They’ll be full of regret. Oh! In that place where they
spoke about these things, they were right?! Those ideas that I
smirked at, that I thought weren’t important? Oy vey!
“Oh! Why didn’t I realize I was in a Gan Eden? All my life I
was walking blindly.”
But the tzaddikim, the ones who fulfilled this first mitzvah,
when they’ll see the true light that Hashem will show them,
they’ll be happy. Ah! They’ll see the truth, how they were
correct in utilizing their lives,…………
Two Mitzvos of Gan Eden
So you have two things to do in Gan Eden, ….… In
our Gan Edens we have to work. And it’s a very big subject
we’re talking about now because that’s the purpose of life.
All of the happiness that Hashem gives us is for the
purpose of working. It’s the first mitzvah! We’re
commanded to dedicate our lives to this function of
maaseh Elokim. – Look. Study it.
And the second is– don’t spoil it.
Why isn’t this in the seven mitzvos bnei Noach?
When you look at the list, it doesn’t include these two.
Many Mitzvos not written in the Chumash
Rabbeinu Nissim Gaon explains that (Hakdamah to Shas).
He said there are many mitzvos, but the mitzvos that your
own mind is mechayev you, that Hakadosh Baruch Hu
doesn’t have to tell you. Don’t we find in the Chumash
that many of the kadmonim were punished for doing
wrong things they were never warned not to do?
How could you punish a man without a warning?
– You can’t punish unless you warn him (see Sanhedrin 56b).
So Rabbeinu Nissim says, –
whatever depends on havonas halev is a chiyuv to do.
Hakadosh Baruch Hu demands you should do them
and there is a responsibility for not listening to your seichel.
People don’t know that. Many mitzvos we’re mechuyav in
that are not written in the Chumash. We’ll speak about that
one day. Very many things! And these two are the first on that
long list of mitzvos of the seichel. Hakadosh Baruch Hu is
talking to each one of us:…… See all the details that
Hashem is giving you in Gan Eden.
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מערכה גורלית וקיומית: אלפי תושבי העיר התכנסו להאזין למשא התקופה ממנהיג הדור מרן הגר"ד לנדו שליט"א
ברשות המרא דאתרא שליט"א, רב בית הכנסת שליט"א והרבנים שליט"א בסיעתא דשמיא אנו זוכים לשמוח ולהשתתף יחד במעמד לכבוד הקמת בית המדרש החדש של יוצאי סלבודקא באלעד, שנבנה בנדבת לבו של ידידנו הנכבד הרב אברהם גולדשטיין שליט"א מלונדון, ובהשתתפותם של בני הקהילה שהשקיעו מהונם ומאונם והתמסרו כל אחד יותר מכפי יכולתו למען הקמת הבנין. ידועה ומפורסמת השפעתה הברוכה של קהילה נכבדה זו על כל צביונה התורני והרוחני של העיר אלעד מיום היווסדה, בהעמדת הדת על תילה, ובכינונה - כעיר הראויה למשכנם של בני תורה בכל המובנים, תפקידכם להמשיך ולהשפיע הלאה והלאה תורה ויראת שמים דקדוק הלכה ומידות טובות על כל בני העיר, והכל בחכמה ובתבונה, והתבוננות בכל פעולה ופעולה אם תועיל או חלילה תרחיק. תמיד יעמדו לנגד עיניכם דברי הגמרא במסכת יומא (דף פו) 'ואהבת את השם אלקיך' שיהא שם שמים מתאהב על ידך, שיהא קורא ושונה ומשמש תלמידי חכמים, ויהא משאו ומתנו בנחת עם הבריות, מה הבריות אומרות עליו - אשרי אביו שלמדו תורה, אשרי רבו שלמדו תורה, אוי להם לבריות שלא למדו תורה, פלוני שלמדו תורה, ראו כמה נאים דרכיו, כמה מתוקנים מעשיו. אבל בראש ובראשונה, התחזקו בתוככם, בתוככי הקהילה פנימה וחזקו איש את רעהו, ברוך השם כל בני הקהילה בני תורה מובהקים יראי שמים ויראי חטא, התחזקו תמיד במורשת שקבלתם בישיבה, הכל בנוי על יסוד אחד, אהבה ואחוה שלום ורעות, להיות ביחד, גם אם יש דעות חלוקות, זו המסורת וכך יש להמשיך, זה היסוד והשורש לכל מילי דמיטב, על זה בנוי הכל, וזה מועיל לכל הדברים, בין אדם למקום, ובין אדם לחבירו, ובין אדם לעצמו, הכל בנוי על כך שיש אהבה ואחוה שלום ורעות, יש דעות חלוקות, אפשר לדון ולהתווכח בצורה רצינית, זה אומר ככה זה אומר ככה, אבל הבסיס היסודי הוא להיות ביחד בקבוצה אחת. זו המסורת, כך תמשיכו הלאה והלאה, ותנחילו לבניכם אחריכם את זה, זה היסוד, אהבה ואחווה ושלום ורעות זה הבסיס. שמעתי שידידי רב בית הכנסת הגאון ר' צבי שליט"א עורר לעסוק בהלכות בית הכנסת, הרב אינו צריך להסכמות, אבל פשיטא ופשיטא שיש להתחזק בזה, בשמירה על הלכות כבוד בית הכנסת, על כל פרטיהם ודקדוקיהם. יעזרנו השם בתוך כל מקהלות רבבות עמך בית ישראל, שיתבטל מעלינו כל גזירות רעות, כל עולם התורה עומד כעת לפני מערכה גורלית וקיומית, זה לא מערכה רגילה, זו מערכה על התורה בעצמה!! זו מערכה על לומדי התורה! ואסור להקל ראש בזה, יהי רצון שנזכה לסיעתא דשמיא, ונוכל להמשיך ללמוד בעיון ביתר שאת, להיות מונחים בלימוד, שקועים בלימוד, ולא מקופיא בעלמא. והשיאנו השם אלקינו את ברכת מועדך לחיים ולשלום, ונזכה במהרה לביאת משיח צדקנו ולבנין בית המקדש במהרה בימינו ושם נעלה ונראה ונשתחווה בשלש פעמי רגלינו ונעשה את קרבנות חובותינו תמידים כסדרם ומוספים כהלכתם, אמן. #הגרדלנדו #סלבודקא
[...] Always keep before your eyes the words of the Gemara in Tractate Yoma (86a) regarding the commandment "And you shall love the Lord your God": that the Name of Heaven should become beloved through you. This is achieved by studying Scripture and Mishnah, serving Torah scholars, and conducting one’s business dealings gently and pleasantly with others. What do people say about such a person? "Fortunate is the father who taught him Torah; fortunate is the teacher who taught him Torah. Woe to those who have not studied Torah—look at this man who has studied Torah; see how pleasant his ways are, how refined his deeds."
But above all, strengthen yourselves—within your own hearts and within the community—and strengthen one another. Thank God, all members of the community are distinguished Torah scholars, God-fearing and sin-fearing individuals. Always hold fast to the legacy you received in the Yeshiva; everything is built upon a single foundation: love, brotherhood, peace, and friendship—standing together, even when there are differences of opinion. This is the tradition, and this is how we must continue; it is the foundation and root of all that is good. Everything is built upon this, and it benefits every aspect of life—relationships between man and God, between man and his fellow, and between a person and himself. Everything rests on the existence of love, brotherhood, peace, and friendship. There may be differences of opinion—one person says this, another says that, and one can debate and argue seriously—but the fundamental basis is remaining together as one united group. This is the tradition; this is how you shall continue, passing it on to your children after you. This is the foundation—love, brotherhood, peace, and friendship constitute the basis.
I have heard that my friend, the synagogue’s rabbi—the brilliant scholar Rabbi Zvi, *shlita*—has urged the congregation to study the laws governing the synagogue. While the Rabbi requires no formal endorsement, it is absolutely clear that we must strengthen our observance in this regard—upholding the laws concerning the sanctity and honor of the synagogue, down to their finest details and nuances.
May the Almighty assist us—along with the multitudes of the House of Israel—in averting all harsh decrees. The entire Torah world currently faces a fateful, existential struggle; this is no ordinary battle—it is a battle for the Torah itself! It is a battle for those who study the Torah! We must not treat this matter lightly. May it be His will that we merit Divine assistance, enabling us to continue our in-depth study with even greater intensity—fully immersed and engaged in our learning, rather than merely skimming the surface.
May the Lord our God bestow upon us the blessings of His appointed festivals—blessings of life and peace. May we soon merit the coming of our righteous Messiah and the rebuilding of the Holy Temple in our time; there, we shall ascend, appear, and bow down during the three pilgrimage festivals, offering our obligatory sacrifices—the *Tamid* offerings in their proper order and the *Mussaf* offerings in accordance with the law. Amen.
#HaGaonRabbiDovLandau #Slobodka
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