The Library

Taken From Tzvi Fishman's Arutz Sheva Blog. There are many unfortunate consequences for a Jew who follows after his eyes. Since many people look upon this lightly, let me share a Kabbalistic secret to help impress the gravity of this transgression in your minds. In the "S...

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...

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 once wrote on the forum: I have been in that dark pit. If you listen I will help you out of there. You have to remember. Remember your youth, your younger days, where life was happy and pure. Believe , that is how life is meant to be. The pit is not real (even ...

Excerpts from an article at www.jewishsexuality.com The Hebrew word for semen is zera, which means seed. This seed contains not only the physical and spiritual blueprints of life, but also the life force itself. Each discharge of semen contains hundreds of thousands of s...

Excerpted from the Tanya, Chapter 27, by the first Admor of Chabad, the Baal HaTanya, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi. "However, should the sadness (in serving G-d) stem not from worry over sins, but from evil thoughts and desires that enter his mind – if they appear not d...

Shmirat habrit is the foundation of all of the Torah. The Kabbalists teach that if a Jew keeps Shabbat, studies Torah, gives charity generously, and generally excels in his overall mitzvah observance, but is lax in guarding his sexual holiness, then all of the spiritual e...

In the year 1927, at a time of world depression and widespread persecution of the Jews, the Chafetz Chaim wrote an appeal to world Jewry to speak out on the dangers of immodesty, in order to stem the sufferings of the Jewish People. We quote here some excerpts from his le...

We think we have it hard with Shmiras Ainayim and Shmiras Habris. And sometimes we do. But take a look below at the mesirus nefesh and love for Hashem's mitzvos of a simple Jew, just 65 years ago. It makes me so ashamed.

Taken from the website www.ilovetorah.com Every tzaddik is faced with the most difficult tests. Chazal say that the higher ones level the greater their evil inclination. There is no tzaddik that exists that wasn't tempted and didn't face sin head to head. We think that be...

Here are some excerpts from an article on www.chabad.org that deals with recovery from addictions. Rabbi Benyamin Bresinger has worked with addicts for twenty years. He is the creator of a national seminar which integrates kabbalah and the 12 steps of Alcohol Anonymous, a...

Excerpts taken from an article here on YeshivaWorld.com ~ We formatted the most relevant parts in italics below ~ The second half of the Sunday morning session at the Agudah convention addressed the devastating impact of substance abuse and other kinds of addiction on ind...

Boys Town, NE - On a clement winter day at the edge of the Plains, two men in black trod a kind of hallowed ground. One was a Roman Catholic priest, the Rev. Steven E. Boes, and the other a Hasidic rabbi, Shais Taub. They were walking through the village founded decades e...

I once asked our oncologist if it wasn't depressing to work with sick and dying people all the time. His answer blew me away. "Everyone is going to die," he said, leaning forward over his desk, "some sooner than later. It's how we choose to live our lives that matters. My...

Silverman details that period of her life in her new memoir "Love Sick: One Woman's Journey Through Sexual Addiction'' (Norton, $24.95). "I would use sex like a drug to numb pain,'' said Silverman, who now lives in the Lake Michigan community of Grand Haven. "I was using ...

One of the fortunate - and sometimes unfortunate - aspects of human biology is that we contain within us the physiology for extraordinary pleasures. When we are psychologically in balance, our capacity to derive enjoyment from our senses and our bodies, whether through e...

We wrote an e-mail to Rabbi Twerski: Dear Rabbi Twerski, Here's a PDF file called "The GYE Lighthouse" (right-click and press "Save Target/Link As"). It has a link to a short audio clip from a speech that the Rav recently gave (on Chanukah). It also documents a few of the...

Teshuvah & Ahavas Yisrael are the two highest ideals of the GYE Network. And Martin Gross showed us all that these two ideals are possible even in the abyss of pain and death. To quote Nochum Kurinsky who was present at the execution (YW NEWS): The curtain opened and...