No One Else In The Room! - Rabbi Shlomo Landau

the following analogy is a little bit in one's face but it's critical and important i want you to imagine for a moment that you were invited to an exclusive wedding you see the hassan the groom his family is one of the jewish communities wealthiest most generous people and you come to this wedding and you are blown away by the decor you're blown away by the band you're blown away by the food it's unbelievable and you're there for the chuppah and there's a 50 piece band and the flowers and there's an amazing rabbanim and sadique him there under the it's an uplifting and beautiful moment that you'll remember for the rest of your life and then the huston breaks the glass and the band erupts in ay yoshama and all the friends and family sing the hassan and kala down the aisle to the to the room with our spend the first few precious moments together as husband and wife and the hassan and kala they close the door to the yika room and the hassan and kala come in and the kala looks at the she's so happy and he looks at the kala and all of a sudden to her chagrin she realizes that there's a man standing in the room and she turns to the house and she goes there's someone in here get him out of here and he says relax relax it's my personal attendant he's been with me since i was a child he's here in case we need anything we don't need anything she says we have the two of us don't worry he's not going to say anything we don't even have to say anything to him i am so close with him i literally signal to him i move my snap my finger i move my hand he'll know exactly what we need don't worry it's okay the collet turns to the hudson get him out of here he's intruding relax he says he's not intruding he's part of my life you can imagine that if the child doesn't get the response she wants she'll flee the room of exclusivity in tears and who knows if the wedding will continue my dearest brothers and sisters every day when we take three steps forward to talk to the rabbi shalom instrument esri it's a time of incredible a time of exclusive time of quality time for just us and avinu shabba shamayim it's the most precious moments of our entire day and it's just for us and it's just for hashem and he's looking up at us with longing eyes what can i do for you but sadly so many people not intentionally they just don't think about it they bring someone else into the equation in this case it's something else in the equation and that's their phone and at a time of exclusivity the most precious quality time to talk to them they intrude they trespass by pulling off their phone it rings they look at it they take it in they check their text messages during hazardous shots what a slap in the face shouldn't it make the reboundish woman flee the room in tears and not want to continue the conversation maybe it should and and i beg and i plead kaiser with so many yeshua's before us we need so many things don't bring your phone into dhabani turn it off before dominating so you can have that exclusive relationship with hashem so hashem could turn to you and say my child what could i do for you how can i help you let's make this investment let's transform our tafila experience and the rabbunichalam will respond in kind you