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Yesterday Uri posted a last gasp of a drowning man: I'm falling big time here. This is my last call for help. I have two tabs open now, one of them is GYE, the other... I also have had enough of falling by myself. I have my finger on the phone waiting to call a girl w...

"Ovadia" posted on the forum: Hi, I am joining the forum for the first time today. I am married and we have B"H a number of children. I spent ten years in Kollel. After ten years learning, I had to leave full time learning for parnasa reasons and work in an office. The in...

The following piece is in honor of R' Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk ZT"L, talmid of the Baal Shem Tov and author of the Sefer Pri Ha'aretz whose Yartzeit was recently on Rosh Chodesh Iyar. It has been mentioned on the forum in various contexts, that many of us felt disgusted...

The 12 Step Program teaches us how to become Spiritually Fit, and when I am, the triggers can wiggle by and I just won't care to focus on them. Not 'white knuckling', boys, but BLESSED INDIFFERENCE. And I'm SOOOO thankful to Hashem for giving me of His strength to become ...

I would like to tell you why I chose the username Ovadia. It is after Ovadia HaNovi who is my inspiration. Chazal ask, "Why did Ovadia prophesies about the downfall of Esav?" Answer: "Let Ovadia, who lived between two wicked people (Achav and Ezevel) and was not influence...

At the beginning of this week's Parsha, the Torah tells us of the vision of the ladder which Ya'akov Avinu was shown as he fled from Esav. Rav Dessler ZT"L sees the ladder as the symbol of man's "ascent" in his service of HaShem. This service is like a ladder firmly plant...