Tips & Suggestions

"Rabbeinu Yonah discusses various barriers to teshuva in Sha'arei Teshuva. But perhaps the greatest barrier most of us experience is a lack of belief in our capacity to change"... Yonason Rosenblum in an article on ;www.matzav.com. (Click here for the full article).   The Biggest Obstacle The fol...

Taken from an article by Rabbi Avi Shafran on www.Matzav.com. (Click here for the full article). Among the collected letters of Rav Yitzchok Hutner, zt"l, is one that was written to a talmid whose own, earlier, letter to the Rosh Yeshiva had apparently evidenced the student's despondence over h...

Battleworn posted his story on ;the forum, and he writes one of the best pieces of Chizuk that he heard as a Bachur, ;which helped him not to give up: I heard ;back then, I think ;in the name of R' Abramski zt'l, what I think might be the most important yesod in chizuk. He said that when a person...

I want to share with you today this thread from our Forum: Suffer Yisroel writes: I want to share a technique that was very helpful to me when I wanted to stop masturbating once and for all. I committed to myself that every time I lose myself and do it I would give a substantial sum to Tzedaka! A...

This was a ;really ;great post on our Forum by "battleworn" and ;I want to share it with everyone: I've been thinking that the website is really loaded with great advice, but it would probably be helpful to some people to lay down the basic steps. So I'll try to start and I welcome your comments ...

Someone wrote in today some thoughts that help him, and I would like to share them with everyone: I just want to tell you that your site and chizuk etc. seems to have helped me a lot, and is continuing to do so. Hashem Yishmereinu veyechzkeinu. Some additional thoughts: 1. Stopping these things...

Someone that I am a sponsor for, recently wrote me as follows: One of the ideas mentioned on ;the weekly call this past Tuesday that I thought was great, is that it's OK to let painful feelings just sit there. ; It's OK to be in pain - it's part of life and it will pass. ; We addicts are not awar...

Someone posted something beautiful on the forum. Ahhh, the Yetzer Harah. ; Yes, this shmendrick IS stronger than us, and yes, without Hashems help, we have NO chance of overcoming him. He knows this truth, and I personally have experienced this over many many years. I had realized that the ONLY c...

Someone recently sent us the following e-mail: I first of all wanted to thank you very much for all your efforts & chizuk. I wanted to share my experience with you so if you think it's appropriate to share it with everyone, you can. I was R'L a serious addict and for me it was a daily and som...

It's Elul and we all want to start doing Teshuvah, but we ask ourselves "Where do we start?". Someone posted on the forum yesterday something simple ;yet profound from the ;Chofetz Chaim (and we added it to our ;Teshuva page). The ;Chofetz Chaim says that the essence of doing Teshuvah is to make ...