An Act That Can Change Everything

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi David Ashear’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

there are certain things that in one change could affect your whole life your children's lives your future generations in one change we are all unfortunately living in a world of depravity we're living in a world and a society that preaches the worst morals and values and it's all available to us every single one of these corrupt ideas and pictures they're all available at our fingertips with this smartphone and if the only problem with this smartphone was the pitted suit and the disgusting content [Music] that would be enough to fast and cry from this plague but it goes beyond every free moment that a person has who's addicted to this immediately when he's idle he looks for the phone and he shoots for it and starts scrolling and looking and looking and looking looking and it takes over all of our free time there's no such thing as free time there's always something else to look at someone else's life to look at someone else's pictures my emails my stock market whatever you want i'm so many people have become addicted children someone told me that a child refused to go to camp because he didn't want to leave the phone and play and stop playing the games our children are being becoming addicted from the age of four years old they know everything and it's an automatic reflex the second you're free boom

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1. 0:00there are certain things that in one change could affect your whole life your children's lives…
2. 0:30that preaches the worst morals and values and it's all available to us every single one…
3. 1:01to fast and cry from this plague but it goes beyond every free moment that a…
4. 1:32else's pictures my emails my stock market whatever you want i'm so many people have become…
5. 2:03go to the phone and if that was the problem it would also be enough to…
6. 3:05of our prayers talking to hashem it's just a natural reflex and it's taking over our…
7. 3:38many years ago i read a study that the average child was watching three to five…
8. 4:10guidance and five hours of television and who's raising the children the violence the profanity the…
9. 4:41one kabbalah somebody told me i was so impressed he said i tried so many ways…
10. 5:12night the other phone i leave in my car or in my business he said i'm…

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