QUESTION:
The Rav was asked if filtered Internet will prevent a person from Olam HaBa, and the Rav answered that if one doesn’t disconnect emotionally from Internet by the moment before the Geulah, one loses out on Olam HaBa forever. Recently the Rav clarified that if only feels emotionally connected to Zoom and Torah websites, because of the Torah that one learned from there, this is not considered “emotional connection to the Internet”. But the question is, what is the difference? If emotional connection to Internet holds a person back from Olam HaBa, what difference does it make if a person feels connected to Internet itself or if he only feels that connection to Zoom and Torah websites? Did the Rav mean that a person can participate in Torah classes on Zoom, as long as he is not emotionally connected to Zoom or to Internet, and the entire connection that he feels is only towards the Torah learning that he received from Zoom and Torah sites?
ANSWER:
One has to disconnect from it [all uses of internet] totally, but if a person is only connected to the words of the Torah that he learned from it, this will not hold him back from Olam HaBa.
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