Jumping into the Fire and Throwing Away the iPhone

The Daily Chizuk from our Teacher, the Tzaddik, Rav Eliezer Berland shlit"a – "The iPhone causes one to stumble and hinders teshuvah (repentance)"

Wednesday, 23 Sivan 5782 – "If there were no iPhone, everyone would do teshuvah (repentance)," these are his holy words:

The entire purpose of a person is to jump into the fire – now we must throw away all the iPhones, jump into the fire.

The main thing is to jump into the fire just as Abraham jumped into the fire. Abraham merited in the merit of this to purify all of the Jewish people, and so he will throw away his iPhone – to throw away the iPhone, to look for something kosher, completely kosher, and fully blocked.

A phone that is only for calling father, mother, or some friend – and not for watching forbidden movies and immorality, and movies that..., especially when one sees actual forbidden sexual relations, things that are a Torah prohibition.

One must throw away all the iPhones; it is an actual Torah prohibition, it causes one to stumble, it is impossible not to fail.

One sees a place that is forbidden to see and then it is already over, his brain is burned, he cannot do teshuvah (repentance) afterward.

If there were no iPhone, everyone would do teshuvah (repentance); it will not help him, his brain is burned, he has no brain, he has nothing, he will only go and fight and do whatever he does.

All those who start with iPhones go afterward and fight, because they have nothing to do, they only want to be heroes.

One must know that throwing away the iPhone is called jumping into the fire, what Abraham did, he jumped into the fire, Sarah jumped into the fire, and everyone jumped into the fire. Once, everyone jumped into the fire, that is everything, that is the entire work of a person.

We read the Akeidah (Binding of Isaac) in the morning, because the entire work is to jump into the fire – the entire work of a person is to jump into the fire.