The Library

As I have posted elsewhere on this site, I travel a lot for my job and when I travel is the most challenging time.B"H I have been doing quite well for a while, but I have still been finding it a struggle to avoid the pool areas of the hotels I am staying at.I am currently...

We are really a lucky people. There is a whole world outside of this site that has not only immersed itself completely in garbage but, even more unfortunately, has called that normal and settled for a life that wallows in p** and quick-fix stimulation. We, on the other ha...

My name is Yossi, I am a 19 year old Bochur, and I have been Shomer Habris for over 6 months B"H - the best 6 months of my life. One of the main things that spurred me to stop, besides for the extreme seriousness of the sin, was the realisation of how much better life wou...

HonestMouse wrote: My boss called a meeting during lunchtime and I missed Mincha, which would mean I would have to daven without a minyan. I was sulking and frustrated, mamash like a 2 year old, and I started lusting with passers by on the street. I felt very tempted to g...

By "Jack", clean for two years on GYE In America, it is often asked: 'what's in it for me?' Well, being "clean" is not the same as fulfilling every desire of ours - it's a much more subtle feeling. It takes time to appreciate the feeling that comes with being holy (separ...

We're all on a slow curve going up - but it has lots of dips and chinks along the way. You may have fallen, but you're still higher than you were a month ago, a year ago, or maybe even a week ago. Even though you don't feel it, every effort counts here. See Rav Matisyohu ...

A while back, after R' Wolfson spoke about shemiras eyenaim and shmiras bris one shalosh seudos, "Pintele yid" (from the forum) turned around and muttered under his breath, "there is a web site about this"... Well, guess what? The guy standing next to him when he muttered...

I only have the power to change the present moment. Right now, I choose that this moment will be clean.

Dov from Israel writes: I had an interesting experience... I kept noticing that someone was also logged in when I was on my other Gmail account - but I did not recognize the person. Perhaps it was someone I once sent an email too (I am involved in several different activi...

Hold me, my dear G-d. This is not a fight that I can win. I lie prostrate at Your feet, my face pressed against the cool stone of the throne room. I feel Your gaze on me, and it is kind. I know that You are there for me. I wish I could clamber into Your lap and snuggle do...

On Friday night I wasn't in the mood of singing zemiros. I had a short conversation with the Ribono Shel Olam:"Hashem, there were times today when I felt a strong desire. I said then that I want to desire YOU HASHEM instead. Now Hashem, please give the cheishek to sing ze...

Because it would be extremely unpopular, the medical community does not tell the truth about sex. If they would, here are some of the things they would publicize: 1) It is essential to be monogamous for life (barring subsequent marriages), and to have sex only with someon...

Chazal tell us that at the end of days when haKadosh Baruch Hu will slaughter the Yetzer, all of those who actually see it will cry: the (various) tzaddikim will cry out of joy, as they will see it as a huge mountain and they will say, "How did I ever succeed at conquerin...

A Jew is always 'on-the-way', he can never reach a goal.

Failure is not about falling down, rather, failure is not getting up once you've fallen.

Today is the most important day of my life

Winning is staying in the game

Someone posted on the forum that they are working the 12-Steps and making progress, but every time they remember the terrible sins they did and the harm they caused others, they become depressed and even suicidal, thinking of the irreversible damage that was done. "Smile4...