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TOPIC: Still work to do but there is always hope! 5855 Views

Re: Still work to do but there is always hope! 29 Dec 2022 20:29 #390290

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connected wrote on 29 Dec 2022 20:25:

I recommend learning the Derech Hashem with Rabbi Dovid Gottlieb's shiur - if you dare.
I finished DH four times. Once on my own, once from R' Ari Bensoussan, and twice from Rabbi Gottlieb.
Rabbi Gottlieb can be challenging to follow, but the clarity I gained from his shiur is immeasurable. (As a bonus, he answers questions via email, which I took/take advantage of.)

There’s an actual recorded shiur on Derech Hashem?! Is it on Torah Anytime?

Re: Still work to do but there is always hope! 29 Dec 2022 20:33 #390291

teshuvahguy Current streak: 6 days OFFLINE Platinum Boarder Posts: 417 Karma: 24	Found Rabbi Gottlieb’s series on Torah Anytime. Thanks, Connected!!

Re: Still work to do but there is always hope! 29 Dec 2022 20:43 #390292

DeletedUser1281 OFFLINE Platinum Boarder Posts: 448 Karma: 35	There's an older one (the one I heard first) here: https://www.simpletoremember.com/authors/a/rabbi-dovid-gottlieb/ I've spent hundreds of hours on this page... (also on other websites, but let's not get into that right now.)
	We get only one chance at life. This is not a rehearsal; it's the real thing. Father, help me live sober Today.

Re: Still work to do but there is always hope! 29 Dec 2022 20:56 #390294

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connected wrote on 29 Dec 2022 20:43:

There's an older one (the one I heard first) here: https://www.simpletoremember.com/authors/a/rabbi-dovid-gottlieb/
I've spent hundreds of hours on this page... (also on other websites, but let's not get into that right now.)

So I opened the link and just opened, on a whim, the first thing I saw which was Chosen People-part 1. Listened to about 3 minutes of this guy and…I’m HOOKED. Great resource. I’m going to get into his Derech Hashem talks because I just read it. Can’t wait to hear about all the things I didn’t pick up on my own :-)!

Re: Still work to do but there is always hope! 29 Dec 2022 21:33 #390297

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chancy wrote on 29 Dec 2022 20:00:

The Ramchal is second to none!

I cannot express my love I have for the Ramchal. Its the strongest love I have for any human that ever lived. He was my imaginary father after disconnecting mentally from my real father. I get emotional when I talk about the Ramchal. The unconditional emes of the Ramchal is overwhelming for me. Its just.....i don't know how to express it. Only feelings can capture it. The fact that an abandoned teenager in the 21st century can find the exact same practical application of such fundamental emes, and can feel the love of someone born in 1707, --all while struggling with all the 21st century has to offer, and not feeling loved by anyone,--- is just such overwhelming love coming from the emes, the source. The love Hashem has for us. The emes of hashems love is emes, regardless of where we are holding. I personally experienced this through the siyata dishmaya of Hashem setting me up so i can feel his love.

I'm sick of the Un-scientific approach of today's medical and social environment.
we will never heal and become a better society unless we realize that all people are addicts. Any thing we do that we aren't interested in is "addiction" and medicine doesn't fix addictions.

Pain causes addiction and medicine cant fix pain.

Unless we heal our pain, and become truama conscious so as not to cause others pain, we will never be living in a functioning human society.

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Re: Still work to do but there is always hope! 29 Dec 2022 21:44 #390300

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Human being wrote on 29 Dec 2022 21:33:

chancy wrote on 29 Dec 2022 20:00:

The Ramchal is second to none!

Wow! So beautifully expressed!
You put words to my own feelings.

We get only one chance at life.
This is not a rehearsal; it's the real thing.

Father, help me live sober Today.

Re: Still work to do but there is always hope! 30 Dec 2022 11:01 #390325

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connected wrote on 29 Dec 2022 20:25:

I finished on my own and just finished with Rabbi Bensoussan. I'll check out Rabbi Gottlieb's. Thanks!

Off the forum for now.
My Thread (Not for inspiration, but for random bits and pieces of my journey, as well as the inspiring responses of others: guardyoureyes.com/forum/19-Introduce-Yourself/375514-Enough-is-Enough
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Re: Still work to do but there is always hope! 31 Dec 2022 22:38 #390363

frank.lee Current streak: 449 days OFFLINE Platinum Boarder Posts: 689 Karma: 21	Thank you, I concur. Unbelievable insight and clarity.

Re: Still work to do but there is always hope! 02 Jan 2023 01:53 #390407

teshuvahguy Current streak: 6 days OFFLINE Platinum Boarder Posts: 417 Karma: 24	Starting 2023 at 73 days. Thank you, Hashem and all my friends here at GYE.

Re: Still work to do but there is always hope! 04 Jan 2023 19:29 #390538

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Proud of you!
You make me want to work harder when i see that inspiring others can have a real lasting effect.
Keep it up, Let me know how it goes with Rabbi Goetlibb. Im going thru his shiurim right now.
He is the smartest erliche yid as far as i know... his breadth of knowledge in every area makes me crave to go to Ohr somaech and sit there talking with him for weeks.....
BH today we have such great options online where to learn immense knowledge and grow spiritually.
May we use the tools Hashem gave us in this generation for the good only!

Re: Still work to do but there is always hope! 05 Jan 2023 01:49 #390555

eerie Current streak: 847 days OFFLINE Platinum Boarder Posts: 1592	Teshuvahguy wrote on 02 Jan 2023 01:53: Starting 2023 at 73 days. Thank you, Hashem and all my friends here at GYE. So beautiful, my friend! You are an inspiration! I wish you only bracha and hatzlacha....and keep trucking!
	Feel free to say hi. My email is 1gimpelovitz@gmail.com

Re: Still work to do but there is always hope! 08 Jan 2023 00:46 #390631

teshuvahguy Current streak: 6 days OFFLINE Platinum Boarder Posts: 417 Karma: 24	Just logged day 80. I have to really stick to a “one-day-at-a-time” focus because any time I consider the thought that this is supposed to be for life, it feels very scary. My control has gotten better. My desire is still there. Hoping I can keep it going.

Re: Still work to do but there is always hope! 11 Jan 2023 00:08 #390754

teshuvahguy Current streak: 6 days OFFLINE Platinum Boarder Posts: 417 Karma: 24	Today was logged 83 days. ONE MORE WEEK TO 90!!!

Re: Still work to do but there is always hope! 11 Jan 2023 17:24 #390764

chancy OFFLINE Platinum Boarder Posts: 527 Karma: 22	I hope that you are planning how to celebrate that HUGE milestone.. Start thinking about it. its very important to celebrate and reward yourself on good deeds so as to rewire your pleasure and rewards centers in the brain!.

Re: Still work to do but there is always hope! 11 Jan 2023 19:14 #390767

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Teshuvahguy wrote on 11 Jan 2023 00:08:

Today was logged 83 days. ONE MORE WEEK TO 90!!!

Well done! very nice good for you TG, awesome

To my dear friend reading this:
You are an incredible yid for just being on this site, I am breath taken after each post or new person that comes on and shares a bit about himself, keep it up. You guys are mamash matzlichim in your own ways of growth and Hashem is proud of each one of you! (that includes me too) lol.

KEEP UP YOUR TREMENDOUS UPLIFTING IN THE AVODAH OF EMES!!

Thanks for reading! Stay shtark, I am also being challenged, just build your confidence, never quit no matter what, you are your strongest enemy and yet you are your strongest savior so you choose, I am not saying it's easy but am saying it's possible just takes effort and work!!
-from Emes-A-Yid