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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.
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Moreshet Shaul Hashem Is your Shadow – part I
Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 420 – an address from 1941
P'ninat Mishpat A Non-Contractor in Changing Times – part I
(based on ruling 85128 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts)
Moreshet Shaul Our King on Rosh Hashana, Our Father on Yom Kippur.
Based on Aroch Siach, p. 221 (Rav Shaul Yisraeli)
P'ninat Mishpat A Non-Contractor in Changing Times – part II
(based on ruling 85128 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts)
Moreshet Shaul Hashem Is your Shadow – part II
Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 420 – an address from 1941
Parashat Hashavua Happiness for the Right Reasons
[With painful longing, we share these divrei Torah from our co-Rosh Kollel for close to 40 years, Harav Moshe Ehrenreich zt”l.]
