Today, young people are being addicted to Instagram, Snapchat, WhatsApp, YouTube. They asked the head of Netflix, “Who is your biggest competitor?” And he replied, “Sleep.”
Our kids are getting addicted to this stuff and it is bad for their mental health, it is bad for their physical health.
You don't need to know all this stuff, but if you do, it is Jean Twenge, who is the professor at University of California, San Diego, who has just written the book, “iGen,” which documents all of this. I'll be doing a little radio programme with her in a few weeks' time.
It is ruining kids throughout the world.
And do you know what people are discovering? They are discovering that to save their kids, they have to have one day in which there are no screens, no phones, no tablets, no laptops, no television.
And do you know what they call it? It is the latest invention. It’s called Shabbat.
Otherwise known as digital detox.
Why did Jews become pioneers in one field after another, not in one generation, but throughout 38 centuries?
Because when all the world is going that way, we are not impressed. We go another way.
