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Enjoy the tremendous gift of sight By GYE Sometimes, when we find ourselves drawn, time and time again, to look at things we know we shouldn't, we ask ourselves, "wouldn't it be great if I just couldn't see"? But then, we start to think about how wonderful it is to be able to see. We begin to rea...

I saw an interesting drosho from the previous Klausenberger Rebbe, given approximately 40 years ago on parshas Kedoshim. He showed throughout history how all of our enemies who tried to destroy us physically rach"l, first tried to move us away from Hashem by causing us to sin. Haman, for example,...

; Keeping my eyes and my thoughts away from even mildly pornographic or destructive things is something I believe is important and will make me a happier person. I want to be thinking about how to reach my dreams, how to be a better husband, how to do something awesome, etc., and not dwelling ...

; A person wakes up in the morning, makes himself a cup of coffee. ; He puts the bitter coffee in a mug, adds to it the sweet sugar, pours in the boiling water and adds some cold milk. A cup full of contrasts: hot, cold, bitter, sweet. ; Then he says, “Ribono shel Olam, I don’t know how my day...

Have you heard of Rav Motta Frank? Not so many people know his name. The truth is he doesn’t allow people to call him Rav Motta Frank, at least not in his presence. He makes everyone call him Motta. Rav Motta Frank is a ;rav ;and ;mashpia ;in the Breslov community in ;Meah Shearim ;and has a ;mos...

The need for strong passion and emotion in our yiddishkeit is a topic that has been heavily discussed in recent years, including at various forums at the Agudah convention. However, at the special “Sleepwalking Along the Derech” session, despite the alarm and awareness, a few premier mechanchim o...

Someone wrote to GYE: I am a real sicko - a loser. ;I am so subconciously focused on lust and I am almost 50 yrs old. ;Why can't I just be normal? I agree everyone has nisyonos from time to time, but it feels like I'm always stuck in the mud! ; ; GYE replies with a parable: A great king lived...

When people consider making improvements in Shmiras Haloshon, they sometimes drop the idea as unrealistic. “Can I really say that I’ll be able to avoid ;loshon hora ;forever? What’s the point of trying, only to fail?” But in the month of Kislev, we learn that this line of thinking is false. It i...

The pasuk tells us that Esav was “tzayid befiv’. The common understanding of this is that Esav tricked Yitschok into thinking that he was really a righteous person and Chazal tell us that he would ask Yitschok halachic questions such as whether maser needs to be taken from straw, thereby misleadi...

; I heard the following Mashal/parable from a wise Tzaddik: A man is walking down the street. He has been walking for an hour and is very hungry. As he walks, he passes a McDonald's and he can smell the food cooking inside. Oh, is he hungry! But he knows the Halachos of kosher eating, and he kno...