Comments on: Satmar Rebbe Warns Against Giving Children Cellular Telephones

By: YW fan

YW fan — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:38:32 +0000

#13, I fail to understand what is wrong with expressing our opinion?!? We value the gedolim’s opinion but we want to express ours too!!! There is such thing as a filter you know!

By: a sad chave

a sad chave — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 23:31:22 +0000

To comment #1, 3 and others with a similar comment:

Just because you don’t understand it isn’t a reason to disagree with the gedolim.

You have no basis to just disregard what the gedolim are saying just because it doesn’t seem right to you.

Maybe your rabbi, gedol, rosh yeshiva wouldn’t go that far, but the gedolim are definitely against all of this “technology” and all of the problems that come with it.

So push your personal biased opinions aside… Korach also thought that he was right and that Moshe was wrong and he ended up 6 feet under…

By: YW fan

YW fan — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:14:42 +0000

#11, You seem to have TOTALLY missed the boat!!! I don’t agree with the Rebbe that a cell phone is like a loaded gun!!!

By: mormat

mormat — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:38:53 +0000

To #3,
A loaded gun in the hands of Leiby might also have been a lifesaver. Would you recommend then, that parents give their kids guns??? Think before you comment please.

By: YITZCHOKY

YITZCHOKY — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:46:45 +0000

Or further to 9 they are walking in the street or crossing streets or pushing carriages and are paying attention to the telephone conversions and not looking where they are going. Everyday I see children bus driver talking on the phone [no handsfree]woman crossing streets without looking pushing baby carriages and a 2 or 3 year old holding onto the carriage because the mother’s hand is on the cellular phone and she is not looking where she is going. Also bike rider are talking and almost run over people WHY OR WHY has it become necessary to talk on the phone all the time??

By: The Goq

The Goq — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:58:40 +0000

The main problem with taking a phone on shopping errands is that they have the phone in one hand and steer the cart with the other and cant concentrate on both

By: admitnothing

admitnothing — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:26:59 +0000

I don’t think there is anything wrong with a child taking a cell phone with them when they go on shopping errands providing the phone does not have internet access. Kosher phones are available !

By: EzratHashem

EzratHashem — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:26:25 +0000

You don’t have to be Satmar but you do need the support of the community you are in.

By: LBK

LBK — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:05:40 +0000

I agree with #s 1 and 3. Maybe any phone with internet on it can be dangerous, but it is not that difficult to add parental controls to a phone. My almost 13 year-old son comes home with his friends at night, on either bus, train or walking 20 minutes(because yeshiva doesn’t provide transportation home after 4th grade). I really don’t see a problem giving him a phone that has controls activated to restrict internet usage and texting, and is limited to calling and receiving calls from an approved list of numbers. I plan on letting yeshiva know he has a phone for emergencies, and I’d be very surprised if they gave me a hard time.

By: mark levin

mark levin — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:26:10 +0000

#1: A website loading is “nothing?!?!” My guess is that you are female thus you have NO CLUE about male tayvos.

#4: You don’t have to be a Satmar chosid to heed the Rebbe’s advice.