Probably being one of the only families in the community that we live in that doesn’t have a television, it attracts a lot of questions, and frankly disbelief. In the line of avodas hakodesh that we’re in (kiruv), when yidden come to our home and witness on their own that we don’t have a TV, our experience has been with 100% of the adults, that they express admiration that we don’t have one. Many say they wish they had the inner strength not to have one. And numerous parents lament how television has destroyed the fabric of wholesomeness and innocence in their children.
I ask you all one question: Can you imagine what this world would be like if all yidden didn’t have a television in their home?
One more thing…..from what our not yet frum guests share with us on the topic of TV, it seems impossible to filter the commercials that are aired nowadays, and they aren’t something that can be responsibly monitered. The argument of viewing such a device responsibly doesn’t work.