Practical Tips

Taken from the forum at ;www.jewishsexuality.com/ Gary Writes: ; "I made it thru the whole week. I have been following ;the 12 Torah Steps for almost 2 months. I confessed to my Rabbi and he has an encouraging word each morning after Sharcharis. I try doing a mikvah a day, reciting Tikun Yeshuat...

I can't believe I'm quoting from an Islamic Forum. Nonetheless, I think these excerpt from a forum discussion have some educational value for us. It makes us feel all the more responsibility in these areas, for if even these people, who are called "Am Hadomeh Lachamor" are expected by their relig...

A struggler shares with us some of his tips... There are (at least) three great temptations the evil one tempts us with to make us view Internet pornography: 1) home alone, bored and with nothing to do 2) depressing *I am worth nothing, I can't do anything* feeling, 3) sitting alone before a co...

More from one of our members who shared with us some of the tips that helped him in his journey to recovery: (If you have tips that worked for you, send them to us please as well)   One of the only ways I have found to deal with the problem of porn addiction is to have someone to talk with about ...

One of our members, who happens not be be Jewish (but enjoys Jewish teachings), shared some of the tips that helped him in his journey to recovery. I bring you here part of his letter:   "To deal with pornography that is a more serious problem, bordering on addiction, it is necessary to cut yours...

Often, people just don't trust the power of Torah to save them from the clutches of the Yetzer Hara. They try everything, the 12 steps, meditations, psychotherapy, etc... but they won't sit down and learn a ;blat of Gemara. My friends! Gemara is ;"sechel hayashar" - "straight thinking". When a p...

Kids think that dolls look so human. They are fascinated with them and have fun playing with them and imagine that the dolls are real. We always have to remember this fact. All the fascination that we have with sexual desire and with the beauty of women is fake. It is satisfied in ten seconds, an...

Bitul (self-nullification). Learn to think "Who am I to want anything? We are not here for pleasure. I am doing the work of the king every time I say "No". What more can a Jew want in this world? Along these lines of ;Bitul, ;R' Nachman offers a powerful suggestion. Whenever you are feeling weak...

Some Tikkunim for sins of the eyes, collected and translated by ;www.jewishsexuality.com. ; (Note: These aren't just Tikkunim for the past, but will help you also to control your eyes in the future).   A person who was wont to gaze lustfully at women or at forbidden images should accustom himself...

It is a known fact that someone addicted to pornography begins to neglect his job, his wife, his children and even himself. He misses out on the best parts of life, such as watching his children grow up, and he lets his life deteriorate until ultimately he loses everything. On YWN there was an a...