Steve Jobs, the founder and CEO of Apple, passed away yesterday. News of his death raced through myTwitter feed(which I was reading on my iPod Touch), but one tweet in particular caught my eye. Rabbi Efrem Goldberg wrote, “How much Torah has been listened to on iPods, iPhones, and iTouches thanks to Steve Jobs, what a merit.”
之前我没有想到史蒂夫•乔布斯的遗产being directly related to the Jewish community in that way. It makes a lot of sense, though. What a gift.
The portability of the Torah—the ability to move Jewish learning and worship out of the The Temple in Jerusalem and into synagogues andchavurotall over the world has been crucial to the survival of the Jewish people. The iPhone takes this mobility to a whole new level. We now have access to the whole of the internet (including苹果beplayandMy Jewish Learning!), as well as apps for our most holy writings, candle-lighting times, Jewish calendars and music, and Hebrew dictionaries, wherever we go.
As we remember Steve Jobs today, we here at Kveller would love to know, how has your iPhone or iPad impacted your Jewish life or Jewish parenting? What’s your favoriteJewish app? What apps would you like to see?
