THE i PHONE

IT ALL BEGAN WHEN OUR SON MOISHY RETURNED HOME FROM  YESHIVA KETANAH, BUT THEN DURING BEIN HAZMANIM IT BEGAN WITH SEVERAL SIGNS OF REBELLING, ACCOMPANIED BY OUTBURSTS OF SEVERE INSOLENCE AND CHUTZPAH, WORDS WHICH HAVE  NEVER BEEN HEARD IN OUR HOME,

SOMETHING TERRIBLE WAS HAPPENING , IT WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF A ROUTINE LUNCH, WHEN MOISHY SUDDENLY WHIPPED OUT OF HIS POCKET A CELLPHONE, SUDDENLY ONE OF MY OLDER SONS YELLED OUT  "IMA ! 

HE HAS AN i PHONE "!

IT WAS SOMETHING WE THOUGHT COULD NEVER HAPPEN IN OUR HOME, IMMEDDIATELYN, WITH A FIRM YET COMPOSED STRIDE, MY HUSBAND APPROACHED MOISHY.

THIS PHONE HAS NO PLACE IN OUR HOME, IT IS MY RESPONSIBILITY TO ENSURE THAT YOU AND THE OTHER CHILDREN DO NOT GET TO SEE THE GARBAGE ON THAT PHONE, THE PRITZUS IN THIS THING DRIVES AWAY THE SHECHINAH.

BUT AS WE ALL STOOD THERE I HAD NO INKLING OF THE STORM THAT WAS TO COME

MOISHY SAID YOU THINK BOCHURIM ARE DESTROYED THROUGH i PHONES ONLY, I WAS STILL CAREFUL WITH MY SHMIRAS EINEYIM. 

WHAT ABOUT YOU MOTHER YOU WORK SO HARD TO DRESS IN A WAY THAT MAKES ALL THE MEN AND BOCHURIM ON THE STREET LOOK AT YOU, 

TO DAY I CAN TELL YOU THAT BOCHURIM GO OUT IN TO THE STREET SPECIFICALLY TO SEE YOU AND ALL THOSE WHO DRESS LIKE YOU.

MOISHY SAID THE WAY YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS  DRESS DESTROYED MY SHMIRAS EINEYIM MUCH MORE THEN THE i PHONE.

LATE THAT NIGHT I SAT DOWN WITH MY HUSBAND FOR AN HONEST DISCUSSION ABOUT OUR SPIRITUAL DETERIORATION THINGS THAT MOISHY OPEND OUR EYES TO BEFOR THE i PHONE.