Rabbi Kigel The Shavuot Challenge

buddy we're here from beautiful Passaic New Jersey and this year we want to issue a Shibboleth challenge so first before we issue the shahboz challenge let's figure out what is Shiva or Shiva oute so it happens to be the greatest day in the history of the world why what happened as we know that's the day that Hashem gave the Torah to the people and more specifically the Jewish people so now this is the greatest day in the history of the world that we're about to be celebrating so what is the Torah what is the Torah that Hashem gave us so the Torah is it a history book well not really it's not even an order is that a science book definitely not less than one percent of it is devoted to creation and things like that so the Torah and Hebrew actually means instructions and the tours an instruction manual so now what's the tour instruction manual for well most people don't realize this for the tour is an instruction manual to be holy to be a holy person H Oly holy the tour is a book that allows us to become holy if we fire follow the instructions in there so inevitably what happens when someone starts becoming religious or wants to focus on the Torah so people say a cold what do you need all this stuff just be a nice guy so it's the tour is not a manual to be a nice guy there's plenty of nice guys and nice girls out there seven billion of them possibly the tourism annual an instruction manual of how to be holy and that's what Hashem is giving us and giving the world and that's what we're celebrating this year that Hashem is giving us this amazing opportunity to follow an instruction manuals how to become holy Jews however however we have to remember to be truly holy you have to let go of anything that's holding you back anything that's keeping you a slave that's why Shabbos is 49 days 50 days after we left we left Egypt we left slavery so in order to be holy to follow Irina breena's watching hi marina what in order to do what it says in the Torah then we have to let go of all slavers that we have just as when we came out of Egypt so now here comes a service right now we all have a master unfortunately I don't know how this developed I saw this philosophy is happening and what has happened we are now unfortunately slaves to technology slaves to our cell phones slaves to our smartphones what I read a statistic it was startling between the ages of 18 and 44 I think everyone watching this between ages of 18 44 what happens is over 80% of the people check their cell phone their smartphone within 15 minutes of waking up can you believe that within 15 minutes of waking up first of all it takes like a few minutes to do other stuff so that means as soon as we're waking up we're going right to the cell phone we are slaves to the cell phone that's very reactive that's not being proactive so the challenge I want to issue to all of us and I hope 10,000 people take this challenge on it could be for three days it could be for three weeks it could be for three months it could be for the rest of your life but what should we do when you wake up do not look at your cell phone for an hour right do not look at it for an hour what can you do during this hour you can meditate you can pray you can journal you can think about what you your goals are for the day but whatever it is you can eliminate yourself from the slavery of being being tied to your cell phone so now if we put this all together what can we do this show goes by accepting this challenge by after Sheroes ends first not going in our cell phones for the first out of the day we can really follow the instructions of Torah become holy individuals and not be slaves to our cell phone so with Hashem cell we're all gonna have an amazing she goes we're gonna receive the Torah we're gonna stop being slaves and we're gonna remember that you own your slave from you own your cell phone but your cell phone does not own you some ass thanks