Prevention

An email received by GYE from Rabbi Y.W: Dear GYE, My partner and I are directors of a local kiruv organization that realizes that nowadays many in the frum community need a tremendous amount of kiruv and chizuk as well. I am aware of the enormous help GYE provides, and that you are among the wor...

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...

In the world of sensory stimulation – sounds, smells and images – eyes are our primary interface with the world. Eyesight accounts for 80% of what we learn and 80% of our memories. We need to choose our images wisely, as the Torah exhorts: "Don't stray after your heart and ;eyes" (Numbers 15:39)....

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...

; I am not an addict, nor an addict in recovery. My parents are not addicts. No one in my family or any of my friends are addicts or have died of an overdose – accidental or intentional. I grew up sheltered in a conservative community. A religious community. A community of values, of standards, ...

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...

You defend your position of why you should not "keep trying" to get out with two key facts. 1). You have tried and failed, and this has broken your trust 2). It hurts to fail, and we avoid pain when possible.I’m going to restate the points like this:1). You have tried and failed so it’s difficult...

One thing I feel that really helps me when I'm about to fall is to stop for a second, and think logically about what the pros and cons of this fall would be. For example: Pros: 1) I get pleasure. 2) it relieves stress. (And that's all I'm able to come up with, besides for the fact I'm so much mor...

; Firstly, I would like to thank you for the wonderful, life-saving work you do. Specifically, I would like to comment on the Window to the Soul phone group. I am unable to join in the shiur live because I live in England and therefore for me it takes place in the middle of the night. However, I...