Prayer to get off the internet – reprise
One of my readers asked me if I could re-post the Rav’s prayer to get off the internet.
I thought that’s a fantastic ‘nudge’ from Above, so here it is again:
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Translation:
Ribono Shel Olam, Who can do anything.
Strengthen us with great joy, and we will no longer look at the internet again, forever.
And we will always pray with kavana, every word and every letter.
And at each and every moment, we will be stuck to You, with all our 248 limbs and our 365 sinews, with all our nefesh, ruach, neshama, chaya and yehida.
And give us the merit of seeing Eliyahu HaNavi, may his remembrance be for the good, face-to-face, who had pure eyes.
Answer, Hashem, “Remember, Hashem, [to repay] the offspring of Edom, on the day of Jerusalem, [to repay] those who say Destroy! Destroy to its very foundation!” [Psalm 137].
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Answer, Hashem, give us the merit of having the intellect of Rabbenu HaKadosh, Rabbenu Nachman ben Simcha ben Feiga.
And that we should see Eliyahu HaNavi, may his remembrance be for the good, face-to-face.
And by way of this, we should merit to the verse:
“[A[nd by all the strong hand and awesome power that Moses performed before the eyes of all Israel.” [Devarim 34:12].
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I’ve been saying this prayer most days, the last three years or so.
It’s definitely had an effect, BH!
While I’m still ‘online’ – because we’re all stuck ‘online’ at the moment, in this techno-cack world we live in – I still don’t have a smartphone, thank God a million times, I have no social media, and the stuff I do online, is VERY focussed.
Not just endless surfing of other people’s propaganda or wrong ideas.
I’m still online more than I want to be, even with all that. But this prayer has definitely helped to keep the ratzon to be offline in the forefront of the picture.
And that by itself makes all the difference.
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Dear reader, don’t get confused by what is going on at the moment.
‘Esav’ is in the process of permanently falling, and ‘Yaacov’ is in the process of ascending.
All this gets blurred for those Jews who associate or identify too much with ‘Esav’, in all the different ways that can happen.
A ‘Yaakov’ in galut is still a Yaakov – and will rise as Esav falls.
And the opposite also holds true.
An ‘Esav’ in Eretz Yisrael will fall, when the rest of Edom finally disappears for good.
That verse from Psalm 137 – part of the Tikkun HaKlali, BTW – makes this totally clear:
“Remember, Hashem, [to repay] the offspring of Edom, on the day of Jerusalem, [to repay] those who say Destroy! Destroy to its very foundation!”[Psalm 137].
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We live in the upside-down world, still.
‘Eretz Yisrael and Am Yisrael’ is Yaakov.
‘Medinat Yisrael’ is Esav – always was, right from the start, and always will be.
As the one descends, the other one rises up.
Which tells us that some openly very good things are about to start happening all over the place, for Am Yisrael, very soon.
Just, don’t get confused in the meantime.
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The last thing to tell you is that I am now officially a granny!
Baruch Hashem.
So much of our lives are lived in the footnotes and the postscripts, and the ‘background’. But that’s where so many of the real blessings, the real ‘point’ of being alive, can be found.
And not online.
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PS: Apparently, the astronauts on the International Space Station – who apparently, got stuck up there for six months, instead of the one week they were planning to be there since June – packed santa hats and an xmas tree, for that one week visit….
Watch the video HERE.
Snippet from HERE:
“The crew members, who initially planned for just one week aboard the ISS, have found themselves on this extended mission, resulting in more than six months away from home. Their unanticipated prolonged stay has provided them with new and unique experiences, including celebrating Christmas and possibly New Year’s 2025 away from their loved ones.”
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Personally, I always keep a santa hat and small, fake xmas tree in my emergency kit, because you never know when a week long mission in June will run into xmas time….
Hopefully, there are none of my readers who are still falling for the space hoax, but if there are people who still believe there is a space station orbiting around us, staffed with real people and not just actors in some NASA studio hidden away in the boondocks of the USA – please use your enormous ‘rational’ intellect to explain this to rest of us.
How ‘astronauts’ somehow packed santa hats and a fake xmas tree for a mission that was meant to take just a week, back in June 2024.
We await the ‘rational’ explanation with bated breath. Thankenchou.
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PSS: This has been going on for 65 years already…
This is the video of ‘Apollo 8’ sending back a xmas message from the moon, back in 1965….
Ho! Ho! Ho!
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And below, you can see the footage of ‘earthrise’ from the Apollo 8 mission:
Ho! Ho! Ho!
Think for yourself.
Mazal tov on the new edition. I wish you and Reuven much Nachas.
Mazal tov! Mazal tov!
Such exciting news!!! Much nachas for you and your family!!
mazel tov!
bs”d. Yay, Rivka. So happy for you! Endless happiness and nachas.
bs”d and while we are talking about Santa, I noticed by the Rav’s shiur about– if it’s possible to move to Eretz `Israel, we must–that one of the plants next to the Rav is an xmas tree with a few decorations.
Can you give a link, so I can see what you’re talking about?
The Daily Chizzuk by Moreinu HaRav Eliezer Berland shlit”a – The letter of the Or Sameach to the San Remo Conference
https://ravberland.com/when-its-possible-to-live-in-israel-its-forbidden-to-live-in-another-place-daily-chizzuk/
Ho, ho, ho 😉
מזל טוב ריבקה ולכל משפחתך !!!
listen, the news already told me that conspiracy theorists were having a heyday with this and said that a 3 ton space x delivery arrived in november and the team down on earth was thoughtful enough to include these festive treats. phew! what a reasonable explanation!!
sometimes though I wonder how all the hairspray doesn’t mess up all that exposed wiring up there while they’re spinning around willy-nilly in zero gravity. I mean I always let my hair out when I’m working around expensive machinery and exposed cables. and isn’t “zero gravity” a cute “revelation of the method” given that gravity is fake and hence it’s all “zero”.
En français :
Ribono Shel Olam, Toi qui peux tout faire.
Renforce-nous avec une grande joie, et nous ne regarderons plus jamais l’internet, pour toujours.
Et nous prierons toujours avec kavana, chaque mot et chaque lettre.
Et à chaque instant, nous serons attachés à Toi, avec tous nos 248 membres et nos 365 tendons, avec tout notre nefesh, ruach, neshama, chaya et yehida.
Et accorde-nous le mérite de voir Éliyahou HaNavi, que son souvenir soit pour le bien, face à face, lui qui avait des yeux purs.
Réponds, Hachem, « Souviens-Toi, Hachem, [de rendre justice] aux enfants d’Édom, le jour de Jérusalem, [à ceux qui disaient] Détruis ! Détruis jusqu’à ses fondations ! » [Psaume 137].
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Réponds, Hachem, accorde-nous le mérite d’avoir l’intellect de Rabbénou HaKadosh, Rabbénou Na’hman ben Sim’ha ben Feiga.
Et que nous puissions voir Éliyahou HaNavi, que son souvenir soit pour le bien, face à face.
Et par cela, que nous méritions le verset :
« [Et par toute la main forte et toute la grande puissance que Moïse accomplit sous les yeux de tout Israël.] » [Devarim 34:12].