Question:
Why should we be concerned about the Rav’s words that people who don’t give up their Internet connection before Mashiach comes won’t get into Olam HaBa?? Aren’t there tzaddikim in every generation who do hamtakas dinim, who sweeten all of the judgments on people and who atone for the sins of the generation?
Answer:
Hamatakas dinim (sweetened judgment) gives a person the zechus to disconnect from the internet. But if a person doesn’t disconnect from the Internet, he isn’t able to receive a hamtakas dinim.
Question:
Why can’t we enable the entire generation (even those who remain connected to Internet by the time Mashiach comes) to be worthy of the Geulah by davening to Hashem that every single Jew has a nekuda tova (good point in him) as Rebbi Nachman taught, which changes around all judgments on the person because Hashem sees the person as an entirely different person when we remind Hashem of someone else’s nekudah tovah?
Answer:
Reminding Hashem of another person’s nekudah tovah is in the category of a “spark” of holiness that can help another person, but the Geulah is not a spark, it is a complete spiritual light. Although a small spark of holiness is very powerful and it can burn up an entire pile of evil, the Geulah is a complete “light”, not a spark (which is only partial light), and therefore in order to be zocheh to Geulah, a person needs to be worthy of its light - having a spark of holiness is not enough for a person to make it to the Geulah.
Question:
If we follow the Rav’s approach that preparing for the Geulah is by separating ourselves from the 50th level of tumah which is internet and media use, why won’t this lead to a sense of gaavah when we think that we know everything and that we know what our avodah is now? How is this aligned with the concept of bittul, of nullifying our “I”? Won’t being clear about our avodas Hashem cause us to feel more egoistic and prevent us from the feeling that we don’t know anything at all?
Answer:
We need to remove ourselves from evil, from the 50th level of tumah, which is by separating from all internet and media use. We also need to do good, by connecting to the 50th level of holiness, which is to know that the purpose of all that we know is that we do not really “know” anything at all [and that leads us to nullify our own understanding].
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