Year: 2025

A Short, Free Ebook Against Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens!

I recommend this free PDF by “Vox Day” to anyone dealing with those who quote Richard Dawkins, D. Dennett, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and the like. It’s about 150 pages.

Yes, we also send out a free guide to handling atheists, but our method takes longer at first (despite its extreme brevity), is in Hebrew, and you must subscribe to our newsletter to get it.

Excerpt from the intro:

This is not a theological work. The text contains no arguments for the existence of God and the supernatural, nor is it concerned with evolution, creationism, the age of Earth, or intelligent design. It contains no arguments from Scripture; in attacking the arguments, assertions, and conclusions of the New Atheists, my only weapons are the purely secular ones of reason, logic, and historically documented, independently verifiable fact. This is not a book about God, it is about those who seek to replace Him.

Now, I didn’t check the facts, but in my experience with his other writing, Vox Day is very careful (although I very often disagree with his framework). And if even some of his facts are accurate, Yikes…

A Hyehudi Collection for Lech Lecha

A very incomplete list (and not including the new ones from this past week):

 

  1. December 6 שיר ברוך לוין מהפרשה – והיה זרעך כעפר הארץ ופרצת (העורך Editor)
  2. November 6 פר’ לך לך: תהיה מי שאתה באמת! – ציטוט מעשי מאד מס’ לקו”ה (העורך Editor)
  3. June 28 2 Torah Portions Are Very Embarrassing for Diaspora Jews… (צבי פישמן Tzvi Fishman)
  4. January 28 The Alter of Novardok Could Have Written Sergey Nechayev’s ‘Catechism of a Revolutionary’! (העורך Editor)
  5. October 18 We Want Uganda, As Well… (ללא מחבר No Author)
  6. October 15 לעתים *חייבים* לפרוש מן הציבור – הרש”ר הירש בריש פר’ לך לך (העורך Editor)
  7. November 8 פר’ נח: וורט חזק של הרב ישעי’ הלוי הורוביץ – הובא בס’ אם הבנים שמחה (העורך Editor)
  8. May 12 קרבנות הגוף והנפש של מדינת ישראל (ללא מחבר No Author)
  9. October 14 Meet Avraham Avinu – An ‘IMAM’?! (העורך Editor)
  10. November 8 Lech Lecha: Come Back Home & Have a Personal Relationship With Hashem! (ללא מחבר No Author)
  11. November 10 Jews: The One and the Many (ללא מחבר No Author)
  12. October 28 Ask: What Would Avraham Avinu Do? (העורך Editor)
  13. February 14 מדות שהצדיק טרח להשיגם – לבניו הם כטבע מוטבע (העורך Editor)
  14. October 31 יצחק, מנחה, זיווג – ואת בריתי אקים את יצחק (ללא מחבר No Author)
  15. November 9 ברית מילה זו טובת הילד – לעג על המבקרים (העורך Editor)
  16. November 7 אברם הלך ונסע, והלך ונסע – לכיוון הר המוריה (העורך Editor)
  17. January 4 Don’t ‘Connect’ to Korbanos? Maybe This Will Help (העורך Editor)

Go on…

Rabbi Aryeh Levin on the Parsha

As testified by Rabbi Binyamin Levine, his grandson (from an article we brought in the past):

Rabbi Levene says, “On Thursday, the war was still going on. On Friday, the army came to bring my grandfather to the Kotel before they opened it up to the public. My grandfather said, ‘Binyamin, du velst cumim mit mere (you will come with me).’ A car took us through the Mandelbaum gate, and we came into the Old City onto a little, little street. You couldn’t see the Wall; there were houses all the way up to it. (A week later, they knocked the houses down so throngs could come on Shavuos.)

“My grandfather wanted to make a kriah, rend his garment, because he hadn’t been to the Kotel since 1948, but he couldn’t do it. I had a pocket knife and made a cut for him. He tore his garment and made a Shehechiyanu. He was crying and started running down this alleyway. He was 80 years old. I was 20 years old, and I tried to keep up with him. And at the end of the alley was the Kotel. He started kissing the stones, his hat fell off, and he fell. Soldiers recognized him and came running to help him get up.

“What was amazing to me was that we had two pictures in our living room in Jersey City: one of my grandfather, the tzadik of Yerushalaym, and one of the ‘Koisel.’ As a child, when I had a test the next day, I used to talk to the two pictures. So, here I am running after my grandfather, and the two pictures are in front of me: my grandfather and the Kotel, only they’re live! It was like a dream.

“Then we went to Kever Rochel,” Rabbi Levene continues, “and these soldiers there were crying. My grandfather said, ‘Only by a real mother can we cry like that.’ What was most amazing to me was that, even though he was so excited, and everyone was so euphoric and thought Mashiach was coming, yet my grandfather was closed in on himself. I asked him why. He said, ‘When Avraham fought the kings to save Lot, after he won, it says that Hashem came to Avraham in a vision, and Hashem says, “Don’t be afraid, Avraham, I am a shield for you; your reward is very great.” Isn’t it odd that after the battle, after the great victory, Hashem said, “I am a shield for you”? What does it mean?’ My grandfather answered, ‘Even though the victory was very great, the “kings” will never allow us to keep that victory; they will do everything to take it away. Everyone is so happy, but I am worried. I don’t think the battle is over. The nations of the world will not let us keep it.’”

Read the rest here…

Note: It seems the source is Rabbi Efrem Goldberg’s “Behind the Bima”