JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi Zamir Cohen, head of the Avnei Nezer yeshiva and director of the Hidabrut channel and institutions, visited Porat Yosef dean Rabbi Shalom Cohen and asked for advice on educating yeshiva students.
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Rabbi Shalom Cohen stressed that yeshiva students must attend shacharit prayers in the yeshiva itself, since “yeshiva is not just Torah study it is Torah and fear of Heaven and this is acquired through prayer.
Rabbi Cohen added that “In-depth study (Iyun) should include tractates from Moed such as Sukkah, Shabbat and Pesachim, as this gives the students basic knowledge necessary for daily life.”
Rabbi Cohen added that “if a yeshiva student has an iPhone, he should be removed from the yeshiva, as this is “the root of all the corruption and damage to all the students in the yeshiva, and even the desecration of Shabbat , may G-d spare us from this.”
Rabbi Zamir told Rabbi Shalom Cohen that his yeshiva is growing rapidly, with 350 students requesting to enter the yeshiva but only 56 accepted to the current year. Rabbi Shalom was delighted and said “Happy are we that merit to see the Sephardic Torah world growing, this gives much nachas to Hashem.”
As a great rabbi has said if you have a yeshiva and all everyone is perfect you are doing nothing as rosh Yeshiva, this is the direct way to send kids off the derech. Deal with the issue. God does not take rishoim out of this world as they are givin time to come back to the path. Smart phones and interns a huge problem!!!! But rejection and ejection from the system will not help. Imagine throwing a child out of your home for doing something incorrect. We need to embrace and love. Not judge and unfortunately the opposite.
May we be zocha to be directed to the path of Torah.
So a bochur has an iPhone. And he gets expelled. Precisely what problem is getting solved? Our yeshivos have used expulsion indiscriminately, and wield this power over their bochurim. What responsibility to be mechanech that bochur is being fulfilled? I am very aware of the influences involved. But we must return to the question of the mission of the yeshiva. Is it here to help every bochur reach his spiritual potential? Or is it about compliance?
Time to move to android
Owners don’t fire themselves, they always find a scapegoat.
I have an Android phone with Tanakh, Gemaras, recorded Shiurim that I downloaded, and apps that link to all kinds of Jewish sources. Oh and a siddur too.
Sorting through applicants and rejecting them along with expelling is a special form of רשעות. Think how the rejected and refused Talmid reacts to hearing his father arguing and pleading and his mother crying. This is awful.
One student told reporters, “When they told me I was going to be ejected from yeshiva for having an iPhone, I didn’t take them literally. So I waited in the Bais Medrash for the ominous call from the Rosh Yeshiva to come to his office and to inform me that my time was up, and that I must pack my bags and leave yeshiva.
“But before I had a chance to open my gemara, I felt myself suddenly springing both upward and diagonally, right out the window.
“Little did I know, the yeshiva put in new “ejection” seats in the Bais Medrash that have the ability to eject people right out the window with the push of a button.
“So, now, I was officially ejected from the Yeshiva.
“Despite it being my fault, I wasn’t too happy about leaving the yeshiva. But I knew – from the moment of ejection – that I needed to get my hands on one of those cool high tech seats as soon as possible.
“But I didn’t have the money for that type of gadget, so I sold my iPhone and bought a brand new “ejection” seat with the money I made on the iPhone sale.”
“I love my new high tech gadget, but I’m still trying to fully master it; I already have a few bruises on my head from miscalculating the ejection speed.”
Just wondering how many of the young men were recording g these pearls of wisdom on THEIR Cell phones Went to a Talley years ago about no more internet and cell phones and their were thousands taping the speech’s on them
He seems like a nice guy…right? Right?!!!!!
A bochur has no need 4 an i phone.
A simple kosher phone is great to call home etc
His business is LEARNING
AND ALSO NOT GOING TO DEMONSTRATIONS
I phones are for businesses and old people and their adult children to be in contact with whatsup
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Maybe he should learn about Rabbi Meir and Acher.
If this rule isn’t for you or your son,find another yeshiva.
If the Rosh Yeshivah perceives that a bochur who brought his smartphone into yeshivah, knowing full well that he shouldn’t have, will have negative hashpah on his betters, he should mamash eject the boy.