Question:
1) The Rav said that if a person doesn’t disconnect emotionally from Internet and media connection by the moment before the Geulah arrives, even if it’s just filtered Internet, the person will not get into Olam HaBa. It seems then that most of Klal Yisrael won’t get into Olam HaBa! How could the Rav say something so harsh like this? Also, there are 24 Heavenly courts that rule what will happen to the world, and only 1 of them is the final decision. So why is the Rav saying something that is such middas hadin (the viewpoint of judgment)? Why not have a view of rachamim (compassion) towards Klal Yisrael, just as many tzaddikim in each generation are always making tikkunim (soul-rectifications) for all of Klal Yisrael and arousing rachamim for each soul in Klal Yisrael?
Answer:
When a person remains connected to Internet and media devices, he contradicts [and blocks] Mashiach’s light. If a person has any zechus (merit) of his own, or if he has the zechus of a tzaddik to help him, he will merit to disconnect from his emotional connection to the Internet before Mashiach comes. But when a person remains with his connection to Internet and he doesn’t want to part from it, he cannot receive the light of Mashiach, because the tumah of the Internet cannot go together with Mashiach’s light, for they are in contradiction with each other [the greatest tumah versus the greatest kedushah]. As for the 24 Heavenly courts, they each judge according to a particular combination of letters of Hashem’s name of adonoy, which is from the word din (judgment), but Mashiach’s light is above these 24 Heavenly courts, and when one maintains any connection to the Internet he is not able to receive any of Mashiach’s light.
Question:
2) Why is the Rav saying that our main avodah now is to separate from the Internet and connection to media? Why isn’t our main avodah instead to daven that all of Klal Yisrael should be zocheh to the Geulah?
Answer:
There is what we need to do, and there is also what to daven for. At first we need to do our responsibility to Hashem, and only after that can we daven. Otherwise, we are like a person immersing in a mikveh while holding a sheretz (remaining impure). After a person cuts of all of his connection to anything to do with Internet, he may daven for the rest of Klal Yisrael. But a person cannot remain connected to the tumah of the Internet and at the same time daven.
Question:
3) The Rav mentioned the words of sefer Chessed L’Avraham that if the Geulah happens through middas hadin, there will only be 7000 Jews who will be alive to see the Geulah. So how can we not be afraid of the Geulah and have bitachon in Hashem, if most of Klal Yisrael might not live to see the Geulah chas v’shalom?
Answer:
One has to do whatever he can, and at the same time, have bitachon in Hashem.
Question:
Even if a Jew doesn’t merit Olam HaBa, what does that mean? Isn’t there a deep part of the soul (called the Yechidah) which lives forever and it can never be destroyed (because it is intrinsically connected with Hashem)? Is it only the outer layers of our soul which don’t make it to Olam HaBa when we don’t purify those layers of our being, but the Yechidah part of us will never go lost? And, accordingly, all of the avodah and teshuvah and fixing that we need to do is only on the outer layers of our soul (which are able to become destroyed if we don’t purify them), but the inner essence of each of our souls (our Yechidah) always makes it to Olam HaBa?
Answer:
Correct.
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