SMART PHONES [#18906]

June 20, 2022

QUESTION:

Did the smartphones taking pictures at Kever Rashbi cause the level of the light that was there (the 50th level of kedushah which is more revealed at Kever Rashbi) to become turned into the darkness there that ensued? And therefore was all that darkness a result of the all the light that turned into darkness through using smartphones there to take pictures?

ANSWER:

The light remained the same light, but for those who were connected to that light through these impure devices, the light turned into darkness for them. It is like what happened at the plague of darkness in Egypt, where there was light for all the Jews but that very light was darkness for the Egyptians.