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Inspirations challenge: the
and Real-Life Concerning our Volume
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battle against
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My sto- “When Hashem blesses us with a child, I
ry might will throw out my Smartphone,” my wife
Our Miracle Child read a lit- once said, layers of pain underscoring each
tle like a word.
fairytale; She meant it. She really did.
like a I was afraid that the decision would lose
miracle story that’s hard to believe. Some- its power if we didn’t make it concrete.
times, when I hold my precious little baby “Write it down,” I urged my wife. “Write
boy, I also find it hard to believe the chain down your kabbalah. Let’s put this down
of events. on paper. It will strengthen our decision to
But let’s start from the beginning. get rid of the device when we are blessed
When I got married several years ago, I with a child.”
had my life planned out. I knew that very Rochel wrote it down. It was just a few
soon our home would be filled with the words, a future decision, but they were so
beautiful sounds of life – children crying,
laughing, and growing up together. I pic- unbelievably powerful.
tured myself as the ideal Totty, taking a Less than one year later, I became a Totty.
bunch of little boys to shul every Shabbos. A beautiful little neshama’la crowned us as
Nothing prepared me for those first few parents. And the ironic twist in the story is
years of deep, dark silence. that the Smartphone landed in the garbage
My wife had a Smartphone, but it was so can way before our little prince was born.
basic and simple that it could basically be There was a big wave of hisorerus in our
called a ‘kosher Smartphone’. She didn’t use community, with the rabbanim urging us
it for any social media, there was no to get rid of our ‘Smart’ devices…since
Whatsapp on it, and it wasn’t even used for they take the ‘art’ out of ‘Smart’ and leave
shopping. My wife used her device just for their owners grappling for a sense of bal-
texting, for phone calls, and for some basic ance.
apps like banking and other conveniences. Rochie got rid of her device, and a few
We knew that despite its simplicity, a weeks later we listened to the lusty cries of
Smartphone is not the device of choice in a our newborn miracle.
frum home. We discussed it. Coincidence? I don’t think so!

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