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Excerpts taken from Tzvi Fishman's Blog This Shabbos is Parshas Zachor. The Torah commandment states: "Remember what Amalek did to you by the way, when you were coming out of Egypt, how he met you by the way and smote the hindmost of you, all that were feeble in and trail...

In Likutei Moharan, Torah 23, Rebbe Nachman says that the Jews are all tzaddikim because of the "Brit", and Reb Nosson says that the Rebbe told him that this means because they are circumcised. But this Brit, this covenant between a Jew and his Creator, does not end with...

Ah, the gift of sight! Often though, we don't appreciate it enough. I just read an article in the Hamodia about a twenty year old boy who had a genetic disease and lost his eye sight without warning in the span of just a few days. Obviously this was very difficult for him...

Sometimes a person could have a fleeting thought of how quickly life is passing him by and how great it would be if he could just run away from the hustle and bustle of life and serve G-d in solitude, with all his strength and with true devotion, leaving all the pleasures...

Someone wrote on The Forum that he had overcome his addiction and was doing good, but he requested help now that he was working in an enviorment with non-Jewish, young women and felt he was again in danger of slipping back into his old ways. In response, a Frum psychologi...

The Sefat Emet writes: It is written MISHLE 23:26: "My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways". Because the one who guards his eyes and his heart, which are the two agents of sin, merits that the Holy One Blessed be He put His eyes and His good heart o...

Someone posted this today at Arutz Sheva Talk-Back on Tzvi Fishman's Blog. "For the past few months I have been going through a difficult time, which I don't care to share w/ you in this talkback. But I will tell you that during this period, I have been EXTRA careful in r...

Someone asked Dov: "I'm scared to join the 12-Step phone groups. Is it possible to do the 12 steps by email?"   Dov's response: Your sincere questions are very meaningful to me, personally. I also tried for years to hide as much as possible of my identity from my wife, fr...

Sometimes when we're out there in the big world surrounded by all the temptations, with beautiful women wherever we seem to look, we cry out in our hearts "Dear G-d, where are you? I can't see you, I can't feel you! All I see is a beauty of a different kind, wherever I lo...

Often, the need to seek self-pleasure comes from a mild-depression. Almost 50% of humans have a tendency to some form of depression, even if they don't know or admit it, and it is often this feeling of "void" or "emptiness" that can bring one to seek ways to sooth themsel...

How many people can say that they give their hearts to G-d every day? How fortunate are we that we have something to give G-d!

Excerpts taken from an article by By Harry Fisher (Editor's Note: How many things we can learn from this article about fighting the evil inclination!) I was a sergeant in World War II. I landed at Normandy and fought the Nazis with General Patton's army up to and into ...

Someone wrote us: If my Father in Heaven is literally about Unconditional Love, then that means He loves me without conditions. And there is nothing I can do to disappoint Him. Furthermore, I refuse to have faith in an angry & judgmental God who keeps a score card in ...

THE REWARD FOR THOSE WHO GUARD THEIR EYES FROM LOOKING INTO FORBIDDEN THINGS He becomes a chariot [Merkava] to the Shechina, and he is considered as if had offered all the sacrifices (The Chida, Avodat ha Kodesh, Tzipporen Shamir, 9:128) When he prays to the Holy One Ble...

What does G-d ask of us today, in this last generation before Moshiach? Think of the incredible mesiras Nefesh and sacrifice that the Jewish people endured for thousands of years in the dark and bitter exile. Reflect on the super-human strengths that the Jews had to have ...

What is this whole life compared to eternity? Speak to your body. Tell your limbs that they will one day rot.

R' Shalom Dov Ber of Lubavitch writes in the Kuntres HaAvoda: He who worries about his soul, not to bring it to impurity, will fence himself in what respects to the eyes, and if this is difficult for him, he should strengthen himself with all his power and might. And he s...

In the Talmud (Baba Metzia 107) it says that almost all forms of death come through the agency of the Ayn ha Ra [Evil eye] and the advice to save ourselves from this is to guard our eyes from looking at forbidden things (Berachot 20) for because of this behavior, Yoseph a...