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Guard Your Brain

Guard Your Brain

By the.guard
“Any open vessel which is not sealed is impure” (Numbers/Bamidbar 19:15) FAILURE TO GUARD YOUR EYES WILL BRING DOUBTS AND CONFUSION To our sorrow, we have recently learned that even among parents who educate their children in Torah institutions, some think that they may a...
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Guarding our eyes protects our livelihood

Guarding our eyes protects our livelihood

By the.guard
“The Eyes of Hashem your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year” (Devarim 11:12). When trouble in the world causes people’s parnassah to decline, people make every effort to protect and stimulate their livelihoods. G-d fearing Jews,...
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Korach and Air Force One

Korach and Air Force One

By GYE Corp.
The Rebbe Avrohom of Slonim zy"a, the Yesod Ha'avoda, in Toras Avos writes that the primary shortcoming of Korach was that he sought great levels in avodas Hashem, which is why he desired to be the Kohen Gadol. A person should feel that the even the seemingly minor avoda ...
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Unavoidable Mistakes

Unavoidable Mistakes

By the.guard
And they cried that night… Bit of a depressing story really. We were within a hop skip & jump away from getting into Eretz Yisroel- then boom! Everyone has to die in the wilderness; weeping for one night means the destruction of both temples; exiles, holocausts, battl...
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For they are my servants

For they are my servants

By the.guard
Often times we may feel down about ourselves. This may come as a result of falling into sin, or just a feeling of disconnect from kedusha and Hashem. We may wonder why Hashem allows us to be thrown down into our situation and we feel abandoned. The Meor Enaim tells us tha...
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Leaving Mitzrayim Until Getting the Torah

Leaving Mitzrayim Until Getting the Torah

By the.guard
This 15 minute talk will take you on a journey from the 10 plagues in Mitzrayim, through Kriyas Yam Suf, and all the way until Kabalas HaTorah.
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Like a Camel

By obormottel
The Gemara in Brochos, perek 9, says, "One who sees a gamal (camel) in a dream should know that it was decreed he should die, but he was saved from the decree." It brings from this week's parsha Va'Yigash perek 46 possuk 4, "Hashem tells Yaakov: 'I will go down with you t...
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Of our own making

Of our own making

By obormottel
Ki yadati ess yitzro asher hu osseh hayom. (31:21) I know his Yetzer Horah which he makes for himself today!
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Take A Look At This. Or Not.

Take A Look At This. Or Not.

By obormottel
The Arizal among others[1] tells us Pinchas was a גלגל; reincarnation of Yitzchak. The following are allusions to this. A) The numerical value of פינחס is 208, Identical to that of יצחק. B) Both Yitzchak and Pinchas were Moser Nefesh:[2] Yizchak at the עקידה and Pinchas i...
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The Patterns of Life

The Patterns of Life

By obormottel
www.aish.com 15 mins read Parshat Kedoshim rounds out the Torah's treatment of sexual offences by listing the consequences of engaging in the various forbidden sexual relationships outlined in Parshat Acharei Mot. One of the major hallmarks of a "mode...
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Tailor-made Yetzer Horah

By obormottel
This week's Parsha begins with the word "Tzav" which means command. Why over here specifically did the Torah feel it necessary to command Aharon, while by other Korbanos it simply said "Daber" which means to speak? Rashi explains that the Torah uses the word Tzav when it ...
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The Secret of Real Strength

The Secret of Real Strength

By the.guard
Hashem made an interesting world, The greatest secret of strength and winning is admitting that we can't, and giving it over to Hashem. (And this is the underlying secret of the power of the 12-Steps in helping addicts stop acting-out). If Kings would know this secret, th...
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Don't tell ME what to do!

By obormottel
"Moshe took the Book of the Covenant and read it in earshot of the people and they said: 'Everything that G-d has said, WE WILL DO AND WE WILL OBEY!'" (Exodus/Shemos 24:7) As we follow the narrative of the Jewish People from the time they spent as brutalized slaves in Eg...
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The Ten Step Program of Recovery

By obormottel
"On the third day when it was morning, there was Thunder and Lightning and a Heavy Cloud on The Mountain, and the Sound of the Shofar was very powerful, and the entire people that were around the camp shuddered" (Exodus/Shemos 19:16) Can you even imagine the DRAMA, the A...
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Rationalize or Rational Eyes

By obormottel
"He harnessed his chariot...He took six hundred elite chariots and all the chariots of Egypt, with officers on them all. Hashem strengthened the heart of Pharaoh, king of Egypt and he pursued the Children of Israel" (Exodus/Shemos 14:6) "It was told to the king of Eg...
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The longer, shorter road

By obormottel
At the end of his new book, Tribe of Mentors, Timothy Ferris cites the following poem by Portia Nelson. It’s called ‘Autobiography in Five Short Chapters’: Chapter 1: I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost… I am helpless. It isn...
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Come to your Yetzer Hara!

By obormottel
"When we became addicts, crushed by a Self-Imposed Crisis we could not postpone or evade, we had to fearlessly face the proposition that either G-d is everything or else He is nothing. G-d either is or He isn't. What was our choice to be?" (Big Book, Page 53) בא אל פרעה...
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The Pharaoh of Our Understanding

By obormottel
"We made a decision to turn our Will and our Lives over to the care of Pharaoh as we understood him." (Step Four - Big Book, Egyptian Edition) Having concluded the Book of Genesis, we embark on a new chapter in the lives of B'nai Yisroel. As we all know from Sefer Berei...
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