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Inspirations challenge: the
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I knew it written all over my face.
wasn’t good “What makes you so happy today?” he asked.
Lighting up a Life for me. I I told him all that had transpired: the inexplicable in-
knew it spiration, how I finally disposed of the unwanted, yet
wasn’t what tempting, phone, about the new kosher flip-phone I
I wanted. had bought, and the real simchah shel mitzvah that it
Still, it was hard to make the move. The non-kosher generated.
smartphone remained in my pocket. My brother-in-law seemed moved. “Let me tell you a
I really had no good excuse. The device was not real- part of this story that you don’t even know…”
ly necessary for my job, so I couldn’t blame it on “par- I looked at him curiously. What might he know about
nassah.” my story that I’m not aware of?!
But the yetzer hara is good at what he does. More “For a long time, now, I was very disturbed by your
than once, in a moment of inspiration, I decided I smartphone. I knew it wasn’t good for you, and be-
would try to get rid of the smartphone. But each time, cause of my love for you, I very much wanted to open
new explanations and excuses came up, stopping me your eyes. I wanted to help you understand how bad
from taking action. I even recognized that it was really the phone was for you and how you were destroying
just the good old yetzer hara who was behind the ratio- your life with your own hands. You yourself hardly re-
nalizations. alized how the phone was leading you in a direction
One day, as if out of nowhere, I felt an extreme surge you surely did not want to go… But I didn’t want to risk
of inspiration. I had no idea why the feeling overcame our close relationship, so I didn’t say anything.
me, but it did. It wasn’t any special time of year or any- “Still, I could not keep quiet. I decided I would try a
thing, just a “regular” day… And something inside me different avenue. I began to learn the sefer Ohr
was pushing me to jump in, to cleanse myself of this Hachaim Hakadosh, hoping that Hashem would shine
gadget that was suddenly burning a hole in my pocket. the right “ohr” into your life. I hoped you would be able
I dumped my non-kosher device and hurried over to to recognize on your own where you are heading and
the store to replace it with a simple Meushar phone, be- where you really want to go.
fore I could turn back. “For the last forty days, I learned every day and I
I felt so clean, so pure, so exhilarated. My entire be- begged the Ribbono Shel Olam that in the zechus of the
ing was suffused with happiness. Ohr Hachaim Hakadosh, you and your children should
Just then, I met my brother-in-law – a very chashuve be helped.”
kollel yungerman and talmid chacham. He detected the My brother-in-law paused. “Today is the fortieth
glint in my eye and the overwhelming joy that was day.”

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