Two weeks ago, I met a man in his thirties who told me that he believed that we need to relax the ban on the use of smartphones on the Saturday. After all, he said, it is not really prohibited under any Hallasha (Jewish law). After a few days, my partner Aden told me that they had tried Friday night and stopped all mobile devices. He said, the effect was interesting and hoped to continue. The 30 -year -old grew up in an Orthodox house and is still the Orthodox. Aden says about himself that he does not believe in God.

Over the past 3-4 years, I have told any rabbi listening to that we have a big problem in appearing in the Orthodox Jewish world: connected devices and electricity on Saturday. Few of them take me seriously. I explain to them that most devices such as iPhone do not fall under the air ban that we know and use today, and therefore, it is likely to be permitted by most rabbis. In order to lead the point to the house, he told them that Chazon Al -Ash, known in his life and his death to be among the most striking arbitrators of the Heridians (the superior) in Jewish law, will have to say that according to the legal evaluation rate he created, he will be allowed to use iPhone on youth.

When electricity was used for the first time, Chiazon is properly exposed because its use will be widespread on the Saturday and destroys on Saturday. He has sought all possible explanations to ensure the ban on the Torah create electricity on the Sabbath and does not fall under a brilliant ban on rabbis. He suggested that the closure of the circle was considered a ban on “construction” and the start of the current flow was the ban of “starting fire”, both of which were banned from the Torah. Over the past fifty years, many rabbis have argued, including legendary rabbi, Shlomo Zalman Euerbach, with a Chazon’s approach, which indicates that only if the device is heating, it could be “burned” and that it was certainly not a “building” ban. In both cases, the nest is goodwill as it was, in the past, he made a decisive mistake. He greatly reduced the progress of technology.

Today, the iPhone rarely (you can’t see it anyway) and certainly not “closes” a circle. Thus, the nest, in his desire to judge accurately, has actually created a huge vulnerability. This often happens when the rabbis go to increase. This transgression is inevitable in the face of progress that is unavoidable for technology. In fact, it also happened to the greatest Halshik authority of our time, Rabbi Moshe Vinchantin. Initially, Rav Moshe spent that an hour from Saturday (an hour automatically turned/turning off the lights and other electronics at certain times) was prohibited. When everyone started using them, reversing the path because it was really difficult to find Halcik’s reason for their ban and the clock declined on societies that have already started using Saturday hours. The Greatness of Raf Moshe was that despite his slight construction, he had incredibly wide shoulders in addition to the flawless Halshik authority, and the opposite of his decision. (When I was a teenager, I was honored with an incredible honor to be part of the Minnian bed hospital for this giant shortly before his death.)

The reason for the 30 -year -old to whom he referred to is believed to use a Saturday device is fine, that he has received his education in a religious system that loses the forest of trees. Mainutiae of halacha cannot be as important as it is, an alternative to understanding descriptive issues.

Today’s rabbis should not be afraid to face the rapid pace of technology or reluctant to connect the wide shoulders needed to alleviate the risk of making Hallasha not related. We must understand and offer the essence of the Sabbath and the Nahsha, instead of becoming automation from the halasha. By focusing on the current laws, at the level of the Torah, tightly defined, we opened the largest gaps. Like the Rabbis of 2000 years ago who adapted halalacha to change cellstances and makeained the Framework of Torah by Prohibing The Commerce that Was Encroaching on Shaabbat (ממצוא חפצך ודבר דבר), Toys’ Rabbis Need To Keep up with textology and its imiplications, so that these do not become a detriment to halacha and shabbat and do not Distrance some of today’s YouTh.

We cannot allow him the remains of halachy umbrellas, and inspire the search for gaps. We need to nullify excessive extent that inevitably causes his reaction equality and powerful. We must make people in contact with the beauty of the Sabbath and not only its original ban 39. While the 39 groups and groups of “works” prohibit the Torah are Saturday anchor, in the medium and long term, they are not adequately appropriate and accurate to deal with progress in technology. You do not let the Halchic complicate love the beautiful Sabbath. Ergo, we need a new approach.

There is always no place on devices on Saturday, whether it is considered constructive or not, or a fire created. It does not matter if someone created the “Sabbat application”, and we do not want to block devices and disturb the beautiful faces and conversations of the Sabbath schedule. We do not need iPhone to communicate with our families or our neighbors and our friends on Saturday. We need the Sabbath to reconnect with our humanity just as we separate from our devices. Calculate Aden without the rabbinical isprimathur. Now, we need to find a common consensus on this even if it is not appropriate under one of the banned “business” 39.

At the same time, we need to realize that technological development continues everything. Soon, we will not be able to roam our homes without running lights and air conditioning devices. This is concerned for those who are used to Saturday hours and need to run the lights/stop. However, sensors and devices that are activated by sensors will not be restricted and “existence” cannot restrict Saturday in a connected and sensitive world. Here too, we will need a new approach and it is best to discuss it publicly, lessons and religious immediately, before the genie is completely outside the bottle. We have long waited for iPhone and tablets.

We already have the elderly and the disabled who are transported in golf vehicles in Shabs, and we are not far from the day when IPad will replace books and include Siddur (Prayer Book). Therefore, we immediately need to think about where we will draw lines on other devices and technologies that will help the elderly because people live longer. It is easier for the elderly and visually impaired Siddur reading on iPhone where you can detonate the text as it is easier to hear with hearing tools that are now allowed on Saturday. How will we reconcile with the ban on connected devices? How will we deal with “presence” in a world of sensors that operate and stop electronics everywhere around us? We need to treat this now before everyone has a smart house and we have smart cities.
We need a nalshic, spiritual, and Jewish approach to this. You must be sympathetic and compatible with the Saturday spirit and Saturday. More importantly, we need to develop our approach quickly before technology and a fossilized approach, destroying Saturday and El Fash.

For more reading: I recommend This piece of Rabbi, Dr. Darr Touzer, to play LED lights on Saturday. It is the most thinking Hlashi piece forward.
Thanks to all those who read early drafts: HN, CF, MT