THE HOLINESS OF YESHIVOS TODAY [#16962]

November 25, 2021

QUESTION:

If “the Torah world (the world of yeshivos) has already become destroyed due to the use of internet and internet-devices”, which recently became commonplace even in the Torah world, is there still a gain today of learning in yeshivah? Wouldn’t it be better to learn alone in the house, where a person has the silence and the separation from the world of falsity, to learn Torah away from all the noise and in a state of holiness?

ANSWER:

It is still much worse in the outside world. A person cannot learn Torah alone all day, as the Mesilas Yesharim says, that there are times when one should learn alone, and times where one needs to learn with others. This is relative to each person, how much he needs to be learning alone and how much he should learn with others.
QUESTION
2) Does the Shechinah still settle upon the yeshivos today?
ANSWER
Yes.
QUESTION
3) If a bochur or avreich in a yeshiva/kolel has a smartphone, does this prevent the Shechinah from settling there?
ANSWER
It greatly minimizes the light of the settling of the Shechinah there.