The Qatar Bombing & Charlie Kirk: A Powerful Lesson for Life

I am not a journalist. I don't I do not I did not investigate what happened to those guys in Qatar, what their state is. Did they get them? Did they not get them? But I will tell you that I've received countless messages that they were not there at the time because they had to go davin. They had minion and they left their phones in the room and they didn't daven with their phones. And I got numerous messages that even those guys are protected when they don't have their phones on them. So even though at first I was not going to, you know, I don't like to do uh generic, everybody's, you know, jumping all over that, but I got enough messages that if I don't uh at least throw this in, it's going to be like, "You didn't know that. You didn't know that." Yeah, I I did hear. I I did not I was not able to do my own independent research on that. But if that's what people are talking about, you could be sure that whatever happens in this world is for says in that even whatever happens in this world is for Israel. Even a ship that goes from Spain to Gallaya is only blessed because of the Jewish people. Everything that happens in the world is because of Jewish people. And if it's on the international stage that these guys were saved because they don't have their phone on them, then you could be sure that the in the shamayim they want to remind us about how important that is at this time. And that's something we spoke about for many many years. My humble suggestion is if you accept upon yourself this year not to bring your phone in shul that will be the best decision you ever made in your life. I'm sure you made other maybe I'm sure you married uh Kasha Rabbitson or you have uh you have made good decisions in your life. This will be among the top ones. But here's what I would like to do. I'm telling you something personally this year and uh I'm I'm I'm sharing it with you for your consideration because um this this uh American a proud American who tragically was gunned down in the prime of his life. someone who spoke up for values, was proud of the American way, uh stood up for the morality of the Bible in a very upstanding and respectable way. And it's tragic to see someone murdered in the course of his debate and in the course of standing up for for morality and ethics. It's it's tragic. It's tragic. This is what our country has come to. But he was someone who he was not a Sabbath observant Jew, but he actually turned off his phone every Friday night for 24 hours and the media couldn't get him and all of his fans couldn't communicate with him and all of the outlets couldn't communicate with him. He was not communicable for 24 hours. He did not have a phone and he actually he learned it from the Bible. The Bible says to spend with his family. And by the way, this is another thing that's uh a lot of people are speaking about, you know, of of his many admirable qualities. This is something that he promoted. He said uh you know his wife said that he needed the mental reset. You know think about think about how good it feels after a two-day yamtiff or especially a three-day yumptiff not to have a phone. You know it's it's good for your mental health. Everybody knows it's good for your mental health. So besides not having the phone by uh Davening, I find it um very distracting when I have it on me when I learn