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What is this whole life compared to eternity? Speak to your body. Tell your limbs that they will one day rot.

Sometimes a person can feel bad about being restricted by the Torah from living a carefree and "pleasure filled" life. But G-d smiles and says "My dear child, don't you see? The whole world is blinded by the evil inclination that I created. They are blinded to the obvious...

Sometimes we are like a David, standing up alone against a great and powerful Goliath. The holy Jewish soul that wants to serve Hashem, is pitted against the powerful Yetzer Hara who seems so much stronger than us. It can look like there is no way to win this battle, in t...

Someone wrote us an e-mail, and we tried to reply the best we could. Maybe others can take Chizuk from this "give and take" as well... Excerpts from his letter... I masturbate because I have no bitachon. I am what they call (although I disagree with the term) a "BT," not ...

Taken from an article on www.jewishsexuality.com It is important to understand that the damage caused by looking at forbidden images is not to the transgressor alone. The eyes are windows to the soul, and the soul is connected to all of the highest spiritual worlds. Thus...

How does one get rid of lewd thoughts that distract him from his divine service and his purpose in life? They tell a story of a Ba'al Teshuvah who once came to one of the Chassidic Masters with this question. Having done Teshuvah for his past evil ways, he found that he ...

G-d gave us human beings the gift of imagination, something that no other life form has been endowed with. Without imagination we wouldn't be able to function as human beings, to invent, to progress and to search for the truths of the universe and for G-d. Yet, at the sam...

It is written in the book Rechev Eliyahu that the Yetzer ha Rah tells the person: "Hey, you're not doing anything wrong by looking at women, because your intention is not to enjoy through your eyes, but only to check out if you know this particular woman, and many other t...

Someone once wrote on the forum: I have been in that dark pit. If you listen I will help you out of there. You have to remember. Remember your youth, your younger days, where life was happy and pure. Believe , that is how life is meant to be. The pit is not real (even ...

Sometimes we excuse our behavior and say that the Yetzer Hara causes us not to think straight and therefore we do the wrong thing. But if the Yetzer Hara tried to get us to stick our hand in fire, would we let ourselves get confused? No! So why do we let him muddle our mi...

We recite the first pasuk of kriyas shema four times a day "And you shall love your G-d with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength." And Chaza"l say, "even if he takes your life". So why are so many people willing to give up their love of G-d for such...

This is the way of the evil inclination. The biggest, most tempting fantasy you could think of--the minute it's over there's just no more desire. Nothing. And not only that, but it leaves a void in it's wake. The evil one laughs at us and when we are fool enough to give i...

We all know that "lusting" is bad for us, spiritually and physically. It destroys lives and takes the person away from his life's goals. We all know that there's really nothing there, and that it's all a big bubble of hot air that pops in our face. So why should we let th...

Think of consequence of your actions. The world won't end if you don't get what you want now.

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...