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HaRav Lefkowitz Warns Bnei Torah to Keep Cell Phones Off While Learning

By Betzalel Kahn

HaRav Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz issued strident remarks on the terrible stumbling block cell phones pose, saying even kosher models constitute a breech of the bnei Torah camp when kept on during study sessions, inviting interruptions.

During a talk at the conclusion of the Kelovi Yokum and Mishnas Osher bein hazmanim yeshivas in Jerusalem's Ramot Alef neighborhood, HaRav Lefkowitz cited the verse, `Vehoyoh machanecho kodosh velo yeiro'eh becho ervas dovor veshov mei'acharecho' (Devorim 23:15), saying, "The worst possible situation is if chas vesholom Hashem `turns away' from us. The people who invented cell phones destroyed all of the kedushoh. They wrought destruction and introduced all of the breeches to the point of really changing people and have caused broken families and broken individuals who can no longer save themselves. They are crying out for help and nobody can save them."

Speaking to hundreds of Ramot residents HaRav Lefkowitz added, "Only through omol haTorah and yegi'as haTorah can one be spared. Cell phones should not be in your possession while learning, not even kosher devices."

Several weeks ago HaRav Yosef Chaim Kopshitz visited Maran HaRav Eliashiv shlita, raising the issue of old cell phones without kosher certification but which do not support unsuitable contents. Maran said using such a phone is clearly an act of chilul Hashem and those who use them undermine the campaign since people who see them are liable to permit themselves to use non-kosher models that do support such contents.

 

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