Reply To: Smoking vs. Bochurim on the Internet

sisy: im not sure why being an avreich learning full time makes a diffrence of you having internet. a bochur and an avreich should both be learning full time but maybe you forgot your makom and the fact that someone (your parents, or your in laws) are supporting you even through these tough times. i think the gedolim have more pressing issues at hand than your problem which is people smoking near people who get bothered by it ( which is a very valid problem). you say that most americans have internet. so what. that reason for you to have internet is ridiculus. boruch Hashem your not from the tri state area. you wouldnt last a day here.

you also say “there are many pitfalls that one can run into on the Internet and I would hope no one ever does, but at least that person has the chance to correct any mistake he did by doing Teshuva”. that is completely anti torah. would you give your teenager son his own laptop with internet and not supervise him at all and say its ok because at least he coul do teshuva. when you do an aveira and say to yourself, i will do teshuva afterwards so its ok, the teshuva does NOT work.

Our Torah is a Toras Chaim you can be the biggest Masmid in the world who unfortunately is using the internet, which the Torah that you are learning says is assur.