DISCONNECT TO RECONNECT!
40 DAY CHALLENGE!
Rosh Chodesh Elul – Yom Kippur
‘I spent an hour without my phone’

In Memory of Rina Schnerb

In Memory of Rina Schnerb

DISCONNECT TO RECONNECT!
Accepting upon oneself to have a predefined time in which cellphones are put aside and we are back to ourselves - to sanity
a young 17 year old girl who was killed last Friday when a homemade bomb was detonated as she, her father and her brother were walking to a natural spring near Dolev, a town in the West Bank. The hilly area contains orchards, springs and olive groves, and is popular with hikers from around Israel.Shira Schnerb, Rina's mother wrote the following..."Recently, our daughter expressed great concern about one subject: cellphones, smartphones. She felt that we all surf, literally, to the wrong places. We do not control the device - it controls us. She was only 17, but the waste of time, the distraction and lack of ability to focus among her peers - bothered her a lot and occupied her mind. "Therefore, we, the family, thought that whoever wants to do something for the iluy neshamah (elevation of her soul), can start in this area - accepting upon oneself to have a predefined time, quality time, in which cellphones are put aside and we are back to ourselves - to sanity, to balance, to being settled. Perhaps everyone could tell himself/herself or even post to others: 'I spent an hour without the phone', for example."In this week's Portion, Re'eh, Moshe Rabbenu sets a choice before us:

'Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse'. This is in OUR hands. We define our status each and every moment.

The first step could be to disconnect for a while - in order to reconnect". Amen!