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Narratives
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Inspirations challenge: the 161
and Real-Life Concerning our Volume
generation’s
battle against
technology

R e b moment, just after one particularly
Elimel- grueling prognosis offered by the top
Above and Beyond ech Bid- doctors. Their situation seemed hopeless.
er m a n, The pain dug deeper and stronger than
s h lit”a, ever before.
received The couple was reminded of the words
an emotional letter from a fresh father, of Reb Yechiel Michel of Zlotchov, zt”l, in
three days before his oldest son’s bris. The the Igra d’Pirka: “When a person needs to
man wrote that it had seemed as if he and facilitate something that is above nature,
his wife would never be blessed with a for example, if he naturally cannot have a
family. child, he should undertake a mitzvah that
It is difficult to imagine the pain and is above his nature, and he will enable
daily challenge of a couple in such a [yeshuos] above and beyond nature.”
situation. Yet, even more challenging was It didn’t take long for the woman to
the trial they managed to surmount. realize what these words meant for her.
The wife was very closely connected to Giving up her phone was truly above
her phone. She knew it was not perfectly nature. She had come to a point of
on the right standard, yet she was so dependence on the device and it seemed
intimately hooked to the device that she like an impossible feat. Yet, with such a
could not picture life without it. From promise, she finally gathered her courage,
time to time, she would hear things that and made a move that surpassed her
nearly convinced her to give it up, but natural abilities: she dropped her phone,
each time, she simply could not bring breaking it into smithereens.
herself to actually make the move. And, indeed, the letter-writer wrote
In the meantime, the phone remained emotionally, it was now exactly ten
in her hands. months later. Here they were, hugging
The inspiration came at an auspicious their firstborn son – against all odds!

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