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When it comes to the desire for food, a person always has that "grey" area of deciding what he should eat--for his bodily strength, and what he shouldn't eat--either because it's not healthy for him or because it's too much. However, when it comes to "lusting" for other w...

The Chinese philosopher Lao-tzu once said "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step". True sexual purity is a great achievement in today's world, and for some people it may look very far off. But take that first step today and you will get there in the end....

Chaza"l say; "Repent one day before you die" which is explained to mean that one should repent every day, since no one knows when his day will come. When surrounded by all the illusionary desires of this world, it is easy to lose sight of our priorities in life. But one w...

Our brains are wired to make us irrational when it comes to sexual desire. The wiring in our brains tells us that there is something extremely fascinating in women, something intriguing and sublime. As if all the secrets of the universe can be found in females. What fools...

The rule in spirituality, according to the holy books, is that the moment someone truly wants to reach a spiritual level, G-d gives it to him. The explanation is simple. G-d's light is always shining. He only wants our good. But we have to be a vessel to accept his light....

"Ve'ahavta Es Hashehm Elokecha Bechol Levavcha"... "And you should love Hashem your G-d with all your heart". We say it a few times a day, but in what ways are we able to show that we love G-d? Yes, we daven, we learn a little Torah, we give some Tzedaka, but let's be hon...

Dr / Rabbi Yitzchak Twersky from Jerusalem once described to me his approach in helping people deal with these difficult issues. Our sages call the fight with the evil inclination "Milchemes Hayetzer" which means "a war with one's inclination". They don't call it an "argu...

G-d is like a Story Teller. He loves beautiful stories, and that's one of the reasons he created the world. Very often in life we are given situations where there are no clear cut paths before us. G-d does this purposefully to see the beautiful stories that we humans will...

Idea taken from www.briskodesh.org The first 40 Days The act of creation in the forming of the fetus is completed in 40 days, and this manifests many times in scientific reality as well as in the spiritual reality. (For example, Moshe received the Torah from G-d in 40 day...

Don't think you can win the battle against the evil inclination on your own. You can't. But the good news is, if you trust in G-d and just keep moving forward, he will do it for you. When the Jews stood near the red sea with the Egyptians close behind them and they crie...

The Yetzer Hara tells us that we want "intimacy", "love" etc... he tells us how we desperately need arousal, we need "beauty" we need "lust", we need to indulge in the beauty of a woman's body... All these things are one big lie. The only thing the Yetzer Hara really want...

Sometimes it seems to work in cycles; you feel strong for a while and then start to lose the strength to guard your eyes, and sometimes it can take time until you get that strength back. But remember, every time you pass a test, every time you overcome the downward part o...

I will remember this Autobiography in Five Chapters to help me stay on track. Chapter 1: I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I don't see it. I fall in. It isn't my fault. It takes a long time to figure out how to get out of the hole. Chapter 2: I...

Sometimes a person feels low and Emunah seems out of reach. In such a state, the Yetzer Hara can say to a person, "What use is it for you to be strong and hold yourself back from falling into sin, you anyway feel so far from G-d and you anyway don't have now any Emunah or...

  Let us learn from the butterfly. Say "no" to the obsessions and desires which keep us crawling in the dirt all our lives. Instead, let's do Teshuvah once and for all and lock ourselves into what might feel like a constrained darkness for a while. And then, suddenly, we ...

I'm sure we've all had some difficult tests in the past and overcame them. If someone would offer you a million dollars to sell to him the reward and benefit that you gained in overcoming these tests, would you sell them? I doubt it. So think about it. Do you still feel y...

The hardest thing is to give G-d our hearts. We can try so hard to guard our eyes, we can make all sorts of barriers and penalties for ourselves, but if we aren't willing to truly give G-d our hearts, we end up falling again. What does it mean to give G-d our heart? It me...

A person who just found out that he has a serious disease, or someone who is ill, in pain, or just lost a large sum of money - it's unlikely that such a person would be having a difficult struggle with shmiras ainayim or improper thoughts at that time. Suddenly these type...