"…Our generation is tested with many types of trials, but the greatest of which, as declared by our great leaders to be the greatest trial that ever existed since the beginning of time, the trial of technology and the internet. With awesome hidden and veiled heavenly hand, the internet is burning and destroying the souls of many Jews while keeping their bodies intact. When our heavenly father returns us to our home and redeems us, how great will be the pain of the heavenly presence be, over the souls lost for all eternity, due to the internet, heaven forbid.…"
Above and above right: The Sassoon family
Gabriel Sassoon, the father of the seven children killed in a horrific Brooklyn house fire last month – a fire caused by a Shabbat hotplate left on and unattended as the family slept in a house with no smoke alarms on either the main floor or the second floor where the family slept – now blames the deaths of his children on Internet and cellphone use by Jews:
To our Jewish brothers, sharing in the awesome mourning over our beloved children, the apples of our eyes. Seven souls, pure sacrifices, swept up into heaven in a blaze on the Shabbat of Rosh Hodesh Nisan. The same day as the deaths of Nadav and Avihu who also were consumed body and soul by fire. Our children were certainly pure unblemished public sacrifices to atone for the Jewish people.
On the one hand, similar to Aharon who was silent when his children died, a wise man will be silent at such a time as this.
On the other hand, we can learn a lesson from this event, an event in which a father, away from home returns to find most of his offspring that he raised to have perished.
Our generation is tested with many types of trials, but the greatest of which, as declared by our great leaders to be the greatest trial that ever existed since the beginning of time, the trial of technology and the internet.
With awesome hidden and veiled heavenly hand, the internet is burning and destroying the souls of many Jews while keeping their bodies intact.
When our heavenly father returns us to our home and redeems us, how great will be the pain of the heavenly presence be, over the souls lost for all eternity, due to the internet, heaven forbid.
Therefore, it is incumbent upon each and every individual to avoid being a participant in the sorrow of the Heavenly Host, and even if you must use these items for one’s livelihood, they must only be used with a filter approved by a Rabbi and the leaders of our generation.
And may the Good God Forgive,
[Signed] Gabriel Sassoon