Breaking news!  Below is a remarkable, groundbreaking, and unqualified letter of support that GYE just received from a world-renowned Rosh Yeshiva.  Unfortunately, it's too late for Guard to see this before Shabbos!

I will give Guard the honor of revealing the Rosh Yeshiva's identity.

Update: As Guard noted below, the letter was written by Rav Aharon Feldman, Shlita, Rosh Yeshiva of Ner Yisroel in Baltimore, and member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah. 

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

There is an international scourge attacking the Jewish People: this is the widespread addiction of men to pornography. Fueled mainly by the Internet, but no less by other means of communication such as telephone and DVDs, this scourge threatens to tear apart the fabric of Jewish life and undermine one of its major foundations, that of tzenius (moral restraint).

This addiction has spared no class of Jews: from teenagers to kollel members, from office workers to Rabbis, and from single to married men. I have seen personal lives ruined and marriages wrecked because of this relentless temptation.

A single individual has undertaken to stem this tide of destruction, despite the personal and financial strain which this entails. This is the anonymous administrator of the program known as “Guard Your Eyes.” By utilizing methods which have proved successful in treating other addictions, and by providing constant encouragement, support and strategies to victims, “Guard Your Eyes” has successfully helped wean hundreds, if not thousands, from pornographic addiction and has helped return them to normal life.

I have seen the materials and handbooks which this program distributes and have only praise for its methodology and approach to the problems of the addicts. Everything which I have seen conforms to the highest standards of Torah values. I highly recommend anyone who suffers from this problem to avail himself of this effective program.

“Guard Your Eyes” is worthy of the encouragement and financial support of every Jew.

May HKBH grant its administrator the wisdom, the strength and the means to continue this holy work, and may it help return the Jewish People to becoming a nation regarding whom it is written, והתקדשתם והייתם קדושים (“Sanctify yourselves and you shall then be holy”).

With deep respect,

Aharon Feldman

Kedusha wrote on 22 Jan 2010 15:09:



Reb Gaurd, you ROCK!!!!
i know i dont need to say this but after 120 you will have millions of people standing on the right side of the scale for you!!

Keep on doing your holy work and gd willing i hope to have the financial means in the near future to make some donations!!

YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
That is seriously awesome news.
1st of all, because many of Klal Yisroel's menadvim will now B"EH be mishtatef, and we'll be able to do so much more.
2nd, so many jews who are suffocating will find out about GYE and will have a source of oxygen.

The letterhead of this Haskama reads:

הרב אהרן פעלדמאן
RABBI AHARON FELDMAN
409 YESHIVA LANE, BALTIMORE, MD 21208

Rosh Hayeshiva ראש הישיבה                                                                            
Ner Israel Rabbinical College      ישיבת נר ישראל

Rav Aharon Feldman is also a member of Moetzes Gedolei Yisroel, which makes this Haskama even more powerful!

Thank you Kedusha - you have a tremendous zechus harabim (no one knows how hard he worked to get this!). Hopefully this letter will be a catalyst to getting many other Gedolim on board (lehavdil, like when amalek jumped in and made the water a little less hot  ), and of-course, with a few good Haskamos like this, it will be much easier to raise funds for our work, which means many more thousands of Yidden may be able to be reached and helped, be"h. (And who will they have to thank?  )

Thank you kedusha once again, and thank you everyone for your support and love.

Together with Hashem, and with Achdus between us all, we will be"h make a revolution in Klal Yisrael.

P.S. Someone once posted a very nice letter on our forum from Rav Aharon Feldman to a Gay Bal Teshuvah (see our SSA page).

Mazel Tov and congratulations. And Kedusha, You rock!!

Thats great news! Mazal Tov GYE, Guard, and of course Kedusha. Thanks Guard and Kedusha for your hard work on this important matter for Klal Yisroel.

You guys are awesome. Even more awesome than before (is that possible? Can you be more awesome than awesome?).

Rav Feldman's remarkable letter shows what a tremendous understanding he has of this problem.  

Some examples:  The Rosh Yeshiva clearly recognizes what so many people don't - that this is an addiction, using that word (or a grammatical variation) no less than 5 times, and referring to those who have fallen into this addiction as "victims."  The solution is not to simply do Teshuva, but to treat this addiction the way other addictions are treated.  

Rav Feldman further recognizes that, although the Internet is a major cause of the problem, it is far from the only source from which pornography is accessed.  He is aware that this is a widespread problem affecting male Jews of all classes [women with this type of addiction are the exception, not the rule, but they are victims in a different sense, because their marriages are often "wrecked"].

Mazal tov Guard, and thank you Kedusha.

Kedusha wrote on 24 Jan 2010 04:31:


Also the point that recovering from this addiction is not about becoming a Tzadik, but about "return[ing] . . . to normal life."

Breaking Update: Guard is now in possession of a signed copy of Rav Feldman's letter.  B'ezras Hashem, it will be posted soon on GYE!

Kedusha is da BOMB!

Here's the signed letter folks!  :D

guardureyes wrote on 24 Jan 2010 20:57:


That's a compliment, I hope!

ok who has the hamodias number?

bardichev wrote on 24 Jan 2010 21:16:
Bards was that a joke?