TV Toxins

Television Toxins poison body, mind, soul, and destroy families. Here's how:

Rebbe Nachman of Breslev teaches that a baby's mind capacity develops exclusively from stimulation of the divine soul.

If a person never uses his divine soul – if his entire life is devoted to TV shows, spectator sports, and movies – his mind capacity never develops. Rebbe Nachman of Breslev teaches that negative character traits attach themselves easily to an undeveloped mind. As such, a person can reach the age of eighty and remain a spiritual baby, self-indulgent, egocentric, and perpetually angry. Such a person has no control over his or her own life. He or she is an unfortunate slave to the television program guide.

Try to keep your mind in an active mode. Think of passive entertainment as spiritual cholesterol, which clogs the thought paths of the mind and endangers spiritual health. Read as much as you can. Try to learn new skills. Observe your environment and pay attention to details you normally take for granted. Stay away from TV - it's toxic for both body and soul.

Passive entertainment is public enemy number one to communication in the family. Many couples are so glued to the television that they never sit down to an intimate meal and a meaningful discussion. Some couples have been married for years, yet they don't know each other! Misunderstandings are commonplace between two strangers.

Many parents will refuse to answer their child's important question, if it interrupts the ball game or the seven o'clock news. One who prefers a soap opera or tag-team wrestling match to the emotional welfare of a spouse or a child is light years away from parental and/or marital obligations.

Therefore, in a home where the television takes priority to parental attention, it's natural that the kids love the TV screen more than they love their parents. And parents - don't complain: these are the skewed values that you established in the house. It's not too late to rethink them. The TV is Amalek; get rid of it before Purim and you'll see a big blessing at home.

If you wisely decide to throw the TV out of your third-story window, make sure no one is passing by on the sidewalk at that moment...

Comments

[Nuchy Mandel]

Very true Rabbi!
Plus the more one sits watching TV in the home, the less Torah will be learned in that home.
it is therfore, one of the evil inclination's tools to distract one from Torah and prayer, which is our task in this world.
Blessings always!

[Iman Weiss]

Thanks,

don't forget that the internet is just as dangerous and maybe more.

iman