All that is needed is a willingness to stand up to trials, specifically, the trial of adolescence.3
You guys are fortunate. No one ever told me this growing up. But I sure wish that someone would have. It would have saved me years of struggle and anguish.
I encourage readers of this article to send me their own writings. While the first step is to begin posting on a personal blog, I am working on a Torah magazine which hopefully will gain greater support in the coming days and weeks. The conceptual basis for a Torah magazine (i.e., relating a fully array of current events to Torah) can be read HERE.
1. According to Kabbalah, the attraction to the distraction of technology relates to the desire to feel connected or united with knowledge, termed the service of making unifications (yichudim), the role of Mashiach the son of Joseph. This is why the first word of advice to people addicted to the internet is to begin making unifications between current events that interest them and the Torah. This search for making unifications according to the Torah is also a clear response to the “seduction of Potiphar” which goes along with nearly every internet addiction.
2. Keep in mind that the discussion over reciting birchat hagomel, for our discussion, relates to willingly traveling to dangerous places in order to experience the miraculous.
3. For more on this, read “The “Kabbalah of aGrowth Hacker“.
