QUESTION:
If a person sits all day on a computer for typing Divrei Torah and reading pdfs of Divrei Torah, and because of this he spends way too much time on his computer and his children see him all day on it, does this mean that the person simply isn’t balanced and he’s too absorbed in his learning and ignoring his family because he’s busy learning? Or is this categorized as addiction and attraction to technology, since a computer itself has a pull? If a laptop doesn’t have Internet on it and still a person spends too much time on his computer, is it not considered a technology addiction and it’s just a lack of balance?
ANSWER:
Sometimes it is a problem that comes from not being balanced, and sometimes it is an addiction. The root of the concept of computers is in the 50th level that is within the 49th level of tumah – it is not rooted in the general 50th level of tumah that is all-inclusive of every tumah. Rather, it is the more localized 50th level of tumah within the 49th, from ayin [of the kelipah].
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