Charlie Hall – Nobody suggested that everyone is ????. Nobody said either that there are no uses to smartphones. Nobody said that smartphones cannot be used to advance in ‘????? ?.
The point is – any smartphone unfiltered is a terrible, terrible ?????, and definitely for most adult males. And owning a smartphone and not filtering it is putting yourself in a ??? on ?????.
Challenge to anybody with an unfiltered smartphone: Can you honestly tell me, looking me in the eye, that you have never been ???? in ????? ????? or ????? ?????? as a result of your smartphone? Not even once, by-mistake, wasn’t-your-fault? Did you ever see one image that is lower than where you would place your standards? (And if not, do you perhaps need to raise your standards slightly?)
It is sad that in our generation, we haven’t got the self control to be able to have an unfiltered smartphone and not transgress dozens of issurim. But it is no different to Yichud. We have to stop underestimating the tremendous power of the Yetzer Hara, and not place yourself into a ??? of ?????.