Shabbos Shuva 5780: The Sanctity of Time - Save Your Soul From Your Phone!

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay welcome everyone again arab shabbos as we prepare for shabbos shuva so this is like uh i'm gonna give you a little flavor of the upcoming drashon shabbos first of all uh we can't record it on shabbos or at least we can't admit that we're recording on chavez no but um i want to speak out a very important indian this is a subject that really in the world we live in the secular world has no understanding of the subject but it's a very fundamental topic and idea a very basic idea so we're gonna go back to the beginning of the beginning of creation the fourth day of creation god created the great luminaries the sun and the moon and if i were to ask you what is the main purpose of the sun and the moon what is the purpose of these luminaries i think almost everyone would say the purpose of the luminaries is to be luminaries to illuminate and yet if you read the psukim that's not what it says beginning of voracious paragalapasa for what lahayer no lahav yamabina laila to separate between day and night and then in the next positive passage teslav oh and they should be in the heavens to illuminate take a look at rashi on the second pasuk rashi interprets they will also serve another secondary function that is what to illuminate the world very strange why isn't the fact that they give light listed as the primary function but it's not the primary function is to separate between day and night the secondary function is to illuminate so it says a most fundamental idea there's a job that the sun and the moon does that's even more important than giving light you can say more important than giving light light is energy energy is life when the sun shines down on us it gives us life without the energy of the sun there would be no life on planet earth but still there's something more beneficial and more fundamental than energy and that is to separate between day and night meaning to tell time the value of time as crucial as light is to the world because light enables life but there's nothing more valuable than time because time is life because every moment that passes never comes back it's lost forever and therefore the torah emphasizes the importance of time and considers the son's role in telling time primary and its role in giving life second light secondary so i'll tell you an amazing story everybody knows the story ravi kiva was giving a drusha and the students were dozing off as they say the more things change the more they stay the same and rebecca wants to wake them up so akiva pulls out his best uh trick and he says guess what you know esther in the purim story why did she merit to rule over 127 provinces in the merit of her righteous ancestress sarah who lived 127 righteous years so i must be missing something this is how rebecca rebekah wants to wake up his students and that esther ruled over 127 medino he's in the merit of sorrows 127 righteous years i don't know about you but if i were tired and i was in a sheer and the rabbi said that i'd be out cold so the hidusha arim explains that rabikivo was giving the students a very sharp reministration a very sharp divine muscle he said let's break this down if in the merit of each of sarah's righteous years esther ruled over a country then for each month she must have ruled over a region and for each day uh province yeah and for each minute for each hour a state and for each minute a city and for each second an entire borough or entire neighborhood look how valuable a second is look how valuable a moment is for every moment of sarah's life esther ruled over a whole neighborhood rebbe tells the students if you dear tamidim doze off and miss even a few seconds of tyra you're missing out big time every second of life is very precious you know there's a the subject of health care reform universal health care so basically what's universal health care universal health care is universal health uh health care rationing so you can have people who are going to decide who deserves health care and who doesn't deserve health care and if 40 percent of costs happen the last few months of a person's life so where do you think they're going to look to cut costs the old people people who don't have what they call quality of life right they have people who are who are quality they're going to determine quality adjusted life years happens now that's what happens right but they don't know the teaching of rabson wasserman they don't know the kashivos of zman they don't know the harem they don't know how every moment of life is precious we know there's an amiiri there's an amazing irian yuma what does he say in yuma we have a situation where somebody fell in an avalanche you know and he and a collapsed building is on top of somebody he's trapped under a collapsed building on shabbos we are allowed to desecrate the shabbos even me soft fake maybe somebody's alive samiri says listen to this mary he he started clearing off the rubble mitsuhu if they find the guy alive they complete the dig out she absolutely like even though they're going to clear it out he's not going to live more than one second you're allowed to be mahalo shabbos if the guy's alive why what could you do in one second already why would we desecrate the shabbos to prolong someone's life for one moment because in that one second the person could do chuva in his heart and say you think in the world today they have any concept of such a thing to prolong someone's life maybe in their subconscious they'll they'll submit themselves takadash they'll humble themselves does that have value but according to the value of the torah we believe not in the quality of life we believe in the absolute sanctity of every moment of life you know rabbi uh rabbi j.d black writes in in one of his books that he once came to visit his maternal grandmother who was having kidney failure and had been comatosed for 36 hours and he comes into the hospital he looks at the chart and he sees doctors weren't doing anything for her so he says he tells the doctor you know you got to do something so the doctor said come on she's an old lady let her go in peace she says look you have to keep her alive for as long as you can they started treating her and it was shabbos and rabbi black comes into the hospital room and he turns to the grandmother and he says uh good job is baba and this woman has been comatosed for 36 hours she opens half an eye and she says good shabbos you know what rabbi ki vega writes in his footnotes that if a person says the words good shabbos their mekaim the mitzvos of kiddish so this lady in the last shabbos of her life was makai in the midst of kidus forever and ever and ever this woman will be rewarded that she was making the mitzvah of kidder sanchamus a mitzvah that the doctors wanted to deprive her of you know my family my um my great-grandmother my my mother's father's mother the last shabbos of her life she was in good sam hospital in rockland county and my father went to spend the shabbos there and she was already in a coma and my father ate the shah basuda there and he started singing curry bun and in her state of coma she started swaying and mumbling singing along the curry vine i found in the safer hasidim you know how important it is to sings miroslan chavez writes a really a beautiful idea he quotes rabbenu mushulem ben klonomas he says why do we light up the house on shabbos why do we sing smear sunshine god bless the seventh day so the seventh day has to be a day of blessing now how do you make it a day of blessing so we look and say his foreign that no song should come into his house so from the pastor kenny of we learn klala means absence of song so when it says that means there should be bracha means imagine what kind of oil um a woman in the end of her life the last shabbos of her life was singing along this mirrors you get the mid so once you make the kiddush you wanna know if every single time could be if you talk to yourself and you say good shout outs to yourself i'm not sure yeah yeah so on yom kippur we read the story of yoina yan is on the ship and there's a great storm and they cast lots to see who's responsible for the storm and then they found that it was because of yo now and your says throw me overboard what does the pasik say so uni lift me up toss me into the sea the question is the word sony is extra just say toss me into the sea why lift me up says understood the value of time the kashiva says and if you know it could have just one more split second the second it would take them to lift him up and then toss them in the sea yo you have much more time what could you do in one second like niuri says yahshua is father okay you ready for this this is the best part but we live in a world that has no appreciation of the value of time i want to talk about one specific indian i'm going to leave some stuff out but i think this is a good idea to put out to the public here's the challenge it's a big challenge today actually um it's more of a challenge for younger people but uh people middle age people older people also and that is the amount of time we waste today on our phones the research and statistics today are loya uman kia super i'll just show you just i did some preliminary research yesterday in march in 2017 in the uk a study was done that the average amount of time that people spend on their smartphone is 65.3 hours a month over two hours a day now it fluctuates based on age and gender in other words the women tend to use their phones more than men and from the age of 18 to 24 it was more usage 25 to 34 a little bit less 35 to 44. but that was two years ago that was two years ago one year ago february 8th 2018 and i uh quote time magazine okay ready the average american checks his or her phone 47 times a day i don't believe it because anyone who i've asked says they check it about 47 times an hour and that i believe and that might be an understatement i honestly believe 47 times an hour it might be an understatement and the article continues the average american spends four hours a day looking at their fun a year ago that's basically a sixth of your total time alive on this planet and this article catherine price writes that she spent two years researching and writing a book about how to create a healthy relationship with your phone without giving it up entirely studying neuroplasticity mindfulness and the science of behavior change and she gives nine suggestions on how to gain more time in life okay so i'm going to share with you a few of her ideas and a few of my ideas she says many people they start with a very vagal that i want to spend less time on my phone i think most americans i think most people today think you know what i need to spend less time on my phone but without actually trying to change or accomplish or identify why do i reach for my phone in the first place and then they try to go cold turkey and it doesn't work so i'm going to read to you a few of her uh she has nine uh top suggestions so i read to you a couple with my own uh with my own suggestions okay the first thing you need to figure out is how much time you spend on the phone now if you're on your phone on torahanytime.com that's okay now i'm joking as long as you know as long as you're not checking your your messages while you're doing it the first thing she says you got to have an app the app is called moment for an iphone or quality time for an android and the app will gather how much time a day do i spend on my phone and you're going to be you're going to be uh you're going to be blown away you're going to you're not going to notice if you know people say people say uh it's interesting people say i don't have time for that feeling me pal you have time for daffy me with every rashi taisus rush riff ran ramban marcha you have four hours a day you found time for so that's the first thing you need to do is identify how much time you have to spend on your phone number two identify some specific things you'd like to do with your reclaimed time because if you don't know what you're going to do with the time then uh go back to the phone now if you if you use your phone less you end up with more time now she writes most of the time will be in small chunks so like when you're riding the elevator or waiting in line don't fall for the knee-jerk reaction today people have an addiction that when they have a spirit moment whether they're on an elevator they're in a line or they're in the post office or at a boring graduation or a boring drasha the knee-jerk reaction is pull out your phone so the first thing you need to determine is what am i going to do with my new found four hours a day so i have a good suggestion for starters two suggestions you ready open up the first page of where the khabib is who give us a life saving teaching that there's something called schmidt's voice to me the ice six constant mitzvahs six minutes so i say you can perform 365 days a year 24 hours a day seven days a week i uh try to get you believe nether try to get you a copy of them the sephirah writes there are six mitzvots that were obligated always will not cease from a person afilo reggae even one moment a day you ready for them you could actually fulfill all six in about ten seconds laham and bashem believe that there's a god shalom i don't believe in any other god i believe in one god god has no other parts he's non-corpial i love you hashem i fear you hashem shalom don't stray after your heart or after your eyes don't stray after api karsus or a modesty and then amazingly the say for writes that there is a mnemonic to help you remember these six myths the demonic is sheish are a miklot tiana there are six cities of refuge and i always wondered how are these mitzvos analogous to six cities of refuge so i had the privilege of summer to be in frankfurt adair in germany at the cover of the autumn great poiskon ravioli safe to um the primage and in the introduction of the prema godim the prema goddamn says ivani i think that the analogy between the sixth constant mid-slice and the ari mikhlod is kamoi haroid saiyaf just like a murderer the moment he steps out of the city of refuge his prey to the goyal hadam so to these six myths voice don't divert your attention from them the moment you revert your you divert your attention from them it ain't good but when you're thinking about it you're protected so the next time you're in an elevator and you say what am i going to do for the next 12 seconds yeah let me whip out my phone and commit 12 seconds of suicide and just inanely look at my phone for no reason at all seize the moment there's a reboundish there's no other god there's one god i love hashem i fear hashem don't turn after your heart after your eyes you're just making six mitsu of which you will benefit from it so it's okay i did that now i'll check my phone so i saw something many years ago i saw it hanging in yeshiva i remember it left a deep impression on me and i couldn't find it i don't know this for many years until i uh searched for it on yesterday on your phone [Laughter] and i found i had heard and i even asked people i called people um i called someone who wrote a safer on the stage schmidt says to me this he never heard this i was positive i saw this that the poisse khadar the ravner was once asked like the sixth mitzvah is like uh you know you really do this you should really think about it and he said ha mainly habibi you know french ham in lihabibi believe me pal zeli kevar shivam shana it's already been 70 years i haven't gotten that for the last 70 years i review this specimen 100 times a day at least doesn't get boring i'll tell you what gets boring when you look at one news site and you see the news and then you look at the other news site that's quoting the same anti-semitic ap press with the exact same news and then look at another news site with the exact same news that's boring what do you do on the way to shul what do you think about think about i think about how grumpy i am that's what i think about i think about how many times i have on other people in hakkos cut it out what are you doing on the way to shul why don't you think about the shay smith voice to medius what are you doing on the way home from show what do you do when you drive i have an idea next time you have the urge to no for just look at your phone for no reason be mekaim the sheikh myth voice to medias what's wrong with that something wrong with getting islam hubba there's a problem with that imagine if you took it by yourself ten times a day instead of looking at my phone i'm going to think about the shay schmitzwis to me this that's 60 minutes for today you do it six days a week that's what 360 uh 360 minutes twice a week how many misses is that a wee um a year 180 000. how many mitzvahs is that a day how many misses is that today 360 uh you know if you do it ten times a day that's 600 a day right 3600 3600 excuse me it's 16 minutes twice a day 360 a week that's over 20 000 misfits a year again yeah you ready that's a good idea okay number one number one there's one hashem to believe in hashem excuse me to believe in hashem in basham you have hebrew to believe in hashem number two not to believe in another god number three there's that god has one part in other words he's non-corpial to love hashem to fear hashem don't stray after your heart or after your eyes you could take a picture of the mishna brewer that's an um or the say i will be nether bring you in a sheet imagine if ten times a day imagine ten times instead of inanely looking at your phone you're making six misses i have another idea i have another idea send it out from your iphone to everybody who's in your contact list i have another idea before that what if instead of looking at your phone every time you have the urge to look at your phone you say you know what once a day i'm going to say thank you hashem for my eyes think about your eyes thank you hashem for my hands thank you hashem from my heart thank you hashem for my liver thank you hashem for my feet thank you hashem for my teeth thank you hashem for my tongue 10 times a day the next time you have this knee-jerk reaction i have nothing better to do i'm bored i'll just look at my phone because even though i didn't feel a vibration but maybe i felt the vibration people feel vibrations even on shabbos because they're so addicted to their phone they have phantom they have phantom vibrations a whole safer advises that one should take on one musakhta or one sader mishnais and know it by pa or at least be very fluent in it and says they're many advantage of being very very versed in one message of he says first of all you're making you're really inscribing the torah on your heart if you know it or the says anyone who inherits one message will inherit one world in habba or it says in ashrae fortunate as a person who came here that means the fortune is a person who makes it upstairs with his teaching in his hand but one of the considerations that he mentions is if you know something about you could be my kind in the this way when you're walking you're in the car you're traveling okay so i know people listen to shirim online especially if you listen to taranite.com that's very good continue to do that but what do you do on shabbos so if you have memorized the massachusetts you know i went to visit one of my relatives in bene brock embrack he doesn't have not a smartphone not a flip phone not a not a telephone not a telephone he tells me you know what i do when i walk in the street he says about not somebody from 500 years ago he's alive today so are we on madriga to know a homosexual about pat i don't know what about a mishna anybody could could learn a mishnah go to open up the first mission of because i prepared for the share and i made sure i knew at least one thing about people well everybody knows moisture kevin termina memorize something imagine if every time you had a dumb urge to look at your phone for no reason you said it over a mishnah every mission has 50 words times ten that's five hundred imagine rafam would say that everybody should have a go-to stickle torah you know to say over you know this way you're at a wedding you need to say over the torah you're walking down the street you need to think about something this way you have something handy so instead of having to hear about where this guy is going tomorrow you tell him advantara rapam's go-to shtickle tire was there's a shita of the rambam i'll say it over in two minutes there's a sheet of the ram the rambam and pascal's that all the bane katura are hayev in brasmila not only the banayashma or the descendants of couture and the rambam sense since the banai katura got mixed in the other banishment we don't we don't assume anyone's a ishmaeli the same way we don't assume anyone's from america we won't assume anyone's ishmaeli so they should all be potter from brasmila because we should follow the rave so now this says now we're not going to follow the rave the royve is a special hidden for claudius but roy was not given for gayam so if right is not given for therefore the ramposkins that uh since the banay katura got mixed among the mena ishmael therefore they will hide and belong and on that the min because maybe they make it too right and if going do have roy then they should all be potter but that's and just an example of so you have in your handy uh shtikhotara to say to think about to say over to somebody people don't send me videos please anyone out there i don't want to see your videos don't send me videos why do i bad enough you waste time on videos why do i need to waste time on your videos people spend the whole day looking at dumb pictures and signs and things that people send them why how do people have so much time on their hands it's unbelievable so here's my suggestion to break free don't bring your phone to shop don't bring it to show why do you need it in show you're not diving you're not texting the dominic tasham you're not what's happening him you're not leaving him a voice message why do you need it you know why you need it because you have to check it the second you leave don't bring it leave it charged at home anyway people use it so much by the time they come home from show you're already at 50 you won't be able to use it the rest of the day this way keep it charged and you come home you'll see your phone charged a hundred percent you'll feel you'll be in a you'll start off today in a good mood but here's the problem we have so many sho akases a day of which we could say yafesha robs us of dozens and hundreds of that we could have been thinking about mitzvos to medios we could have thinking about torah we could have been thinking about thanking hashem and the yesahara successfully has robbed us on a daily basis of literally hundreds of shahasas one story and then we'll conclude so i just read that reverend grozinski similar to yonah at the end of his life he was ill in a nazi occupied lithuania and he was very ill in in the hospital and the word got got around that the nazis were going to burn down the hospital and rome grozinski who by the way was the masjid of sabaco the rebbe of arab victor miller rabbit rum gorzinski told the students don't take me out don't save me i'm too sick i need constant medical treatment they said but they're going to burn down the hospital he said so take me and put me on the top floor they said rebbe they burned down the hospital maui the top floor the middle floor of the say because when they burn it down the top floor will be the last to burn and i'll have a few more moments here in la maza and we say well what are you gonna do in a few more moments a few more times to check our phone that's what we think next time you're in the elevator why do you need to check your phone what trump is calling you who's calling you already netanyahu he's calling you to form coalition governments what do they what do you think they want your money if anyone's calling you they want your money they want so let me just conclude with uh amazing teaching of rap simcoe song says that if it would have been worthwhile for hashem to create the entire universe and keep it in existence for six thousand years if only one time one jew would answer that takes only a second to fulfill you could get a helium but says if somehow for answering you get a minimal sharon island hubba but if one answer is amen the reward is a thousand times greater than answering barcode amen is a thousand times greater than barcode but more than that is greater than a thousand domains but it says if somehow listen carefully one word of torah is a thousand times greater than amen rabbi so it's beyond human country that means how long does it take to learn a word of torah less than one second you can learn 200 words in one minute that means one word of torah is one billion times greater than barack obama that's the value of time remember anyone here use citibank who uses the same i use citibanks i remember they used to send me checks in the mail in a box the box said life the ultimate blank check remember that life the ultimate blank check no not true time is the ultimate blank check that's why yoina was asking so universe grammy one more moment that's why miri says we desecrate the shabbos even if somebody will only live a split second because in a split second you could do chuva in a split second you could think about a kadash bartholomew you could sing samiras you could do a khesa to somebody and therefore the torah tells us even more important than the life-giving properties of the sun and the moon is the fact that the sun allows us to determine time and in this world there's nothing more valuable than time um you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com