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Beyond the restrictions that we should take on all year round such as keeping a set time each day for opening a screen; installing a filter on the phone, etc.; it is a good idea these days to mentally abstain (!) from the "mischievousness" of the media.
The word "mischievous" is perceived today as a kind description, but its biblical origin means breaking through accepted norms; a kind of wild spirit for which one needs to repent. Sinking into the world of media and communications - which radicalize and exclude - inevitably leads to a mischievous and disturbed perception of reality; for example, intimidation that a minority, which did not pass the threshold, will continue to control us all and threaten to rebel.
I suggest that during these days we should consume content from healthy media and that too, to the proper extent. We will continue to fight the physical and cultural threats, everyone in their own way, but getting out of media bondage is like leaving a stuffy room for the open air. Suddenly, we see that the vast majority of the figures around us are not busy hating and calling for civil disobedience, rather we are surrounded by people who love their nation and their country. Life is beautiful, the State of Israel is flourishing; and everyone is busy connecting, creating and freeing themselves from all straits.
The bad will pass.
The good will prevail.
With God's help.
Rabbi Haggai Lundin
Family and Society There Will Not Be A Civil War!
(Told to the students of the Hesder Yeshiva in Holon)
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Various Events FOR WHOM NOT TO VOTE
Rav Zvi Yehuda Kook stressed that Israeli politics is G-dly, so I have no problem answering this common question on a Torani blog. Also, Free-Will is a G-d-given right and obligation, to "destine one's fate" (R. Soloveichik, Kol Dodi Dofek, 67), so I obviously don't tell others how to vote. But once not a few (especially young) have already asked, a couple of personal words from experience and thoughts from chazal & Rav Kook which may be of help to others, mainly for whom NOT to vote.
P'ninat Mishpat Fallout from Failure to Install Elevator – part II
based on ruling 85007 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
