proudyungerman wrote on 05 Jul 2024 04:04:

180 days has passed,
some excruciatingly slow, and some quite fast,
Where you’ve experienced tremendous aliya,
self-improvement, shteigen in Torah and yirah.
while I’m sure you’ve seen the effect in your life and family,
im here to give a shout out of the making of history.
for your internal changes have spread like fire
your influence and care for us caught in the mire.
you share your love, concern, and wisdom too,
So alone in the struggle no longer, we have you.
gently prodding like that malach haomer gadel,
speak, encourage, listen, like it is you tell.

your influence is felt by many im sure,
but now I speak for myself and say:
the help you’ve given me from day 1 will forever stay 
and I can sincerely say,
thank you from me, my wife, family, talmidim, and anyone I may help,
for its largely due to you that I’ve made it this far.
ashrecha v’tov lach,
im so proud and humbled of your achievement the same, 
and look forward to seeing your rocket ship climb further.

I’m so happy for you my dear friend and look forward to the day you add another zero to your counter!

with love and admiration,

Muttel

מזל טוב! מזל טוב! 

חצי שיעור אסור מן התורה!

ויה"ר שתמלא שנה זו בקדושה, ויתלוו אליה שנים טובים של טהרה מתוך בריות גופא ונהורא מעליא. אכי"ר.

- יפתח'ל  

WOW! Are you really saying that I only know you for about 180 days?!?!?! I feel like I've known you forever! 
My dear friend and inspiration, keep up the amazing hard work, and we all know it was hard, and keep sharing with us all the inspiration we can handle!

Over the last week or so I have been experiencing a down. (There are a bunch of factors to this, but I think that it boils down to a regular, normal down.) One of the regular, normal lack of interest in really putting my all into whatever it is that I have to do at (just about) any given time. It's a regular ימי שנאה period...

Usually this is a prime time for the YH to attack. But now, it's not even close.
BH in the last few months since I've joined GYE, I have gained many important tools in life.
I now appreciate myself as a person more. (Like waaay more. In a positive light. Finally.) I know that I am still a good person who is accomplishing good things with what I am doing. I know that this too shall pass, and more than that, it is actually okay. I am a human, who is inherently flawed, and I can embrace that. It is not an excuse for making the wrong choices, but I can still accept and embrace the fact that, no matter what: 1) I ain't perfect 2) I am a good person doing good things.

I am still doing my best to keep my guard up and B'ezras Hashem, this too will pass soon.

Normal people have moods. Accept them. Just don't take out your feelings on others....

Hashem Help Me wrote on 10 Jul 2024 19:54:

That's a tough one, Rabbi.

proudyungerman wrote on 10 Jul 2024 19:29:

I feel for you, dear brother. Be proud of yourself, your doing great. As always keep plowing!

Hey, PY! Mazal Tov on 200 shining, pure, holy, special days!!!!

I think that HaRav PY's 200 is closer to 2000. His letter, and the amount of work he puts in for this holy cause, on and offline, is the reason many many people have attained cleanliness themselves. Mazel tov!!!

proudyungerman wrote on 10 Jul 2024 19:29:

B"H the fog seems to be lifting...

That's great! But I've heard that when the sun is out in Burma, the beaches can be a problem! အ့အေ'ျ ါမနအေ ဘကအ င ့့့့့ အ့အေ တ့နည အ့န ျျျ ခသာနျ သကအ ငည ဘကမာ‌ေ, အ့န ဘနခေ့နျ ခညေ ဘန ‌ေ စမသဘူနာကညညနမေိမေိမေ 

ညည်းတွားတဲ့လူတွေက သူတို့တောင်းတာကို ခံရတယ်။ ဆွံ့အသူဖြစ်ခြင်းအကြောင်းပြောလျှင် သင်သည် Rabbi Kalus အီးမေးလ်ကို အကြွေးတင်သည်မဟုတ်လော။

Coming soon: The all-new GYE site in Burmese! 

Did someone mention something about the sun?
All I see are lots of grey and dark clouds...
Oh well, maybe next week...

Today I had to attend an event that was was attended mostly by not-yet-frum Jews.
I am doing pretty good with Shmiras Einayim in general (stores, airports, etc.), however, when it comes to actually having to talk to a lady who is not dressed properly, I find the challenge much more difficult. 
Any ideas on how to deal with this properly?