Sunday, September 28, 2025

Charlie's Shabbos Rebbe

Charlie Kirk wrote a book before he was murdered called Stop, in the Name of G-d: Why Honoring the Sabbath Will Transform Your Life, where he talks about how he kept Shabbos [well, sorta].  Originally, it was supposed to be called The Shabbos Goy but the editors felt the present title would be more attractive. 

It will surely sell countless millions of copies [being martyred is good for business...]. 

It will be translated into Hebrew and the title will be ... גוי ששבת חייב מיתה

He dedicated the book to Dennis Prager who was his "Rebbe Muvhak" and who taught him about Shabbos. The irony [lost on probably everyone but the people who will read this post] is that Prager, who LOVES Shabbos, was raised in a Shomer Shabbos home but is a מחלל שבת בפרהסיא and has been for decades. For him Shabbos is what YOU want it to be. So he discards Torah Shebial Peh and made his own thing up.   

May Hashem send him a Refuah Shleima both in body and spirit.