The Chofetz Chaim on Reading Newspapers....& Spending Time on Your Phone

Yesterday we learned the comments on the brought out the idea that every day is a living reality. On this note, we have a small footnote that the would emphasize the adat in the final he of the word. We say like Hashem the you gave me is pure you created it. You fashioned it. You instilled it within me. You're destined to take it from me. Not you're going to return that to me. Actually, there's a backstory of this comment that's not printed here, but I believe it's printed in the cafer on and I remember my father said it over 36 years ago. Yeah. from of the backstory is one day came into the and he said that he has a very important revelation to make and everybody should come and gather in his house on one particular Friday night and there was a big stir and a big buzz in Raden. What is the going to reveal? Will he reveal the coming the day of the coming of Messiah? Will he reveal when Eliu is coming? And people began to gather in the house of the awaiting the great revelation. And the revelation was with a map that the nishama that Hashem is going to return to us will be in the condition that we gave it to him in. What's the point? That very nisha that was given to man when he came down to this world. That same nisha, not a different nisha is what hashem will return to you. And it will be if I believe in the says it will be returned to you in the in the state that you gave it to him in. Therefore, you have to be be careful to preserve it. What was the point of he was very distressed on people who use their free time, they expend it in levity, in wasted time and in reading newspapers. He would say from all the treasures of this world the most val valuable commodity is time. One moment of cha in this world is greater than how people try to save even if they could just extend their life a few hours. if only the to guard their time from wasting it because time that has passed can never come back. This is what he would say. What do you see in these newspapers that you read every day? Is it helping you make more money? Is it giving you more health? Is it giving you more peace of mind? All it's reporting is it's just talking about tragedy and difficulty. And there's nothing you could do about it. I already knew that before I read the newspaper that they're disasters in the world and there's nothing I could do about them. So what's the kadesh of the newspaper? What? This world is a place of endless enjoyment. No, it's only there's only happiness in the it's only there's no happiness in this world. What do you think you're going to read in the newspaper? That you won the lottery. If you won the lottery, they'll let you know it's not going to be in the newspaper. that your team won the World Series, Super Bowl, Stanley Cup, the likelihood of that happening is one out of 20 something and it's much less than that unless you live in New York or Los Angeles. So, what exactly are you reading there? There's no there not you're not going to read any good reports. We came to this world to complete our quota. and if the was alive today maybe he would say what are you doing spending so much time on your phone say I'm not you're not okay let's take out right now the app of how much time you're on your phone a day and if you would cut that if you would just chisel out a quarter of that time. You could do biopim say, "Have a great day everyone." Recording stopped.