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It says in the kinnos the story of a son and a daughter of R' Yishmael Kohein Gadol, how their masters put them together in a room "to mate." All night, the daughter cried, "I am the daughter of Yocheved! How can I marry a slave!?" and in the other corner the son cried, ...

My Rosh Yeshiva, ztzl, used to reminisce about his days as a child on the Lower East Side. Often, he would come back from school and his father would ask him, ‘Noach – did you remember that Hashem loves you today?’ ‘Yes’, was the young boy’s usual answer. ‘Well done, his...

Click below to watch a short video clip Time to rethink your phone? Made by a friend of GYE and distributed in honor of his son's Bris Milah (Mazal Tov!!!)

This comment was mentioned on our forum, and a member by the name of "Chl" answered powerfully. He writes: I would like to ask the question the other way round: 1) Where can you find magazines in the open depicting women as meat; on the subway newspaper stand in New Yor...

This morning, as I was driving to work, cars zipping by me, a furry little squirrel streaked in front of my car. I gasped, but it was instantaneous. Looking in horror in my mirror, I saw its crushed body, saw it lift its head confusedly and fall limply back down. My heart...

Imagine: you had finally won the BIG PRIZE! Each morning, your bank will deposit $86,400 in your personal account for your use. However, this prize has rules: 1. Everything that you didn't spend during each day would be taken away from you. 2. You may not simply transfe...

In the second brachah of Shemona Esrei we say that "Hashem is 'Someich Noflim, V'rofei Cholim, U'mattir Assurim - Umikayem Emunasoy L'yashainai Afar.'" I would like to explain this in the context of SA. Hashem supports us when we fall into the addiction, He heals us from ...

One night last week, I had a really hard time and was about to give in. Just then, I reminded myself to try one of the tools that GYE suggests. I exercised for around ten minutes and no longer felt the urge to act out. A couple of minutes later, I couldn't believe I had g...

$20,000 in 1956 would be worth $175,000 today. That’s the price point at which Norman Larsen – a self-educated chemist with only a high school diploma to his name – sold his newly invented water displacement formula. That is quite a bargain considering the fact that the...

It always seems hard until its done. What the caterpillar calls 'the end of the world,' the Master calls 'butterfly.'

I've always had this weird thing in me... Whenever I would destroy something of value, I felt a high. When I was in highschool, I would secretly burn books and clothes of mine when I felt down. Nothing gave me a bigger high than taking a $20 and watching it burn, or break...

I am referred to on the forum as Yiraishamaim. I am 91 days clean, the second time around. Originally, I joined this forum only after battling this compulsion for years unsuccessfully on my own. It had become abundantly clear that I needed some kind of intervention....

Torah tells us about "Birkas Hashem", a euphemistic term which actually refers to the exact opposite - one who curses the name of Hashem, chas veshalom. The Torah teaches that one who commits such a crime in front of witnesses is put to death. We learn how the witnesses ...

Wanna make God laugh? Tell him your plans for tomorrow.   Wanna make God happy? Ask Him His plans for you for today!

The fact that we can't 'beat' lust is a very important lesson. It's incredible how it underpins everything. Someone with an allergy would be very stupid to fight the fact that he has it and still try and eat the peanuts without causing an effect. So too with us. The 'pea...

I want to share this thought while I am feeling a massive urge to go back to my old ways. I am 9 months in recovery. In the past, when I used to feel stressed and anxious - which caused me to feel vulnerable - I would turn to "adult entertainment," which I thought would...

On Rosh Hashana, 18 months ago, my rebbe - Rav Shalom Arush, author of Garden of Emuna, a famous tzadik with many hundreds of Talmudim - announced: "Whoever gives me his iPhone to dispose of, I will give him any bracha he wants, and I assure him it will be fulfilled."Mo...

My struggle for freedom goes like this, My fight with Internet was not a bliss. Having a lack of direction too, A day without Internet I could not do. But one day I was listening online, Till I heard this amazing line. THE DEFINITION OF FREEDOM IS THE ABILITY TO SAY NO. ...