I am new to this website and I too am attempting a new start (second day sukkos). Over the years I have tried nearly every conceivable method of trying to break this habit on my own - that didn't work. So far, the thing that seems to be working best for me is just going on this site and browsing through the forums and latest posts (like yours). The posts are inspirational and infuse within me a strength to be strong for at least a couple of hours (until my next browsing of these forums). There are other people who are going through / have gone through the same trials as us. IY'H we will both be successful.
HI "WeWillNotBeForsaken"
congratulations to your joining the Lamed Vav club
where yiden join up to form a Military
and OH boy, we are prevailing!
I just logged in for the first time since before Yom Kippur, and I feel like this thread has made my year. I don't know if all you guys can imagine how much I love all of you. These posts are (in my eyes) the most beautiful thing in the world. Chazak Veematz, keep shteiging higher and higher and please take us along.
This is the real thing. The real purpose of this generation is to fight this lowly taavah. Everything else is background. The greatest nachas ruach for Hashem is when people get together for His sake. This is what's going to bring Moshiach, as it says at the end of Sefer Malachi (Oz Nidbiru...).
There is so much wonderful chizuk on this forum, website and emails. Read it as much as you could and allways come back for more.
Have a super year.
Since I joined this forum, my Olam HaZeh is 1000% more enjoyable as well! The fake, phony "pleasures" I used to indulge in and sin to attain, are nothing compared to the feelings of closeness I feel to Hashem when I daven, learn, watch my eyes etc.
Dear friends,
Please let us not be tricked by this filthy stinking, ________(fill in the blank) menuval.
Yes we know that during the Chagim, he tried to stick his foot in many times, because when there is greater kedushah(the yom tovim), then there is greater tumah, i.e. Mr. Menuval.
But, now we have finished with the chagim. Let us not forget that on one hand it was the Chagim that helped us. We tuned into the kedushah and ran from the tumah. We used the kedushah as a catalyst to jetisin from his filthy grasps. Yes, he was still there, but at the same time we had tremendous Kailim, (tools) at our disposal.
Now as we enter the winter, back to the "chol", he will start once again to boggle our minds with worries, anxieties etc, and we will not have the kedushah of the yom tovim at our disposal.
He knows this!
So, my point is. Let us NOT let our guards down. Yes, we must be prepared for his new attack. He is thinking..."let's see what they can do now with out the aid of the yom tovim. The kedushah has gone, but I am still here."
Dear friends, YES, lets us in fact show him what we can do. All of us together. Let's be prepared and be michazek ourselves and each other.We are NOT prepared to give in. NEVER. This is a different ball game now. We are here together, He CANNOT beat all of us together as a unit.
May Hashem help us that Mar Cheshvan will not turn out to be "MAR", but rather a "sweet" prelude to the lights of Kislev.