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I was going to say that I hate being an addict. But then I thought of something "habib" recently told me. You know those people who walk down the street; the people who daven 3 times a day, wear the clothes, walk the walk, talk the talk, but you just know they do...

The GYE forum is virtual land... the land of the fake. All you guys here are not people, you are algorithms... it's all 1s and 0s, right? The real world is people in $1500 suits and the New York Post at every...

How do we proclaim Hashem's majesty? Do we walk down Mea Shearim and announce on a Speakerphone: "Yehudim Yekarim!! Listen up! Hashem is the King!" That's one way. Maybe. But there is another way. A more global way. Allow me to share the following famous...

During Slichos, I struggled a bit with reconciling a positive frame of mind with emotion about how bad I've been. Everybody here (on the forum) was helpful in me getting past that. Thank you. Rosh Hashana was good, I focused on being M...

Rav Tzvi Hersh Meisels was a Baal Tokea - a skilled shofar blower. Before being sent to Auschwitz, Rav Meisels was a Rav in Hungary - the Veitzner Rav. When he was deported, he somehow managed to smuggle a Shofar into Auschwitz. On o...

All the Belzer chassidim were gathered for the first night of slichos. The Belzer Rebbe walked in and looked around. "Where is Yankel the tailor?", he asked. The chassidim next to him responded; "We don't know. He's not here. Why?" "Go get him. We're not starting...

I don't know what to tell you to help you stand up... You're down, and this addiction is taking advantage, kicking you while you're down... You're taking blows to the head, blows to your ribs... It's an old fashioned beatdown... ...

Let me speak from experience: If there is no holiness in your life, you will get bored/sick/frustrated with your wife no matter how beautiful she is. If you think that had you married the "ditz" you wouldn't be looking at other...

Before I became frum, I used to be very involved in rock climbing. Though I never did any multi-day climbs, I frequently read accounts of them in books and magazines. According to these accounts, when you encounter a particular...

We can't do 90 days now. We can't even do 2 days now! Can we EAT or go to the bathroom for tomorrow?? We can only do TODAY. Forget about yesterday's slip, forget about today's slip, and forget about the future. The Pasuk says: ...

There are two ways to ascend: You can step upward, leaving one foot in its place as the other moves ahead. Or you can crouch down and jump. This is the true meaning of failure: It is the way we have of tearing ourselves out of our past...

If G-d had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it. He sends you flowers every spring. He sends you a sunrise every morning. Whenever you want to talk, He listens. He can live anywhere in the universe, but He chose...... your heart. Face it, Friend, He is crazy about you!

I may have fallen now, but I know that my struggle of the last 10 days clean was not lost. It was very hard and it is mine to keep. I will try again, not because I think I can get to 90 days, but because if I can make it through today it will already have been worth it.

I am, B"H, very successful in everything in life, besides for my addiction. I feel that Hashem gave me this struggle to remind me that everything is from Him! If not, I would forget about Hashem completely and only focus on my success - and how I am on top of the world. ...

Our souls cannot be broken that they should need repair, nor deficient that they should need anything added. Our souls only need to be uncovered and allowed to shine

Sometimes when I feel a little squirrely inside my old head, I need to actually shut up (a tall order for me!!) and follow someone else's advice. It could be Hashem's, it could be another person's - no matter. As long as it isn't me.

Romantic Love is a huge fraud foisted on the western world by poets and novelists, but it has no place in reality, and it always ends in frustration. It is only when marriages are made with rational considerations, that the participants thereby are satisfi...

I yearned to be on top, To reach the tip of the mountain. I envisioned myself - Jumping over rocks, Kicking away the obstacles, Gliding between the trees, Flying up the steep incline, In perfect balance exhilarated . Climbing higher And higher All the way up… In reali...