Torah

Sexual Desire = 99% Triggers, 1% Pleasure Rebbe Nachman said: "The Yetzer Hara's real name is dimyon (imagination)" It's all bilbulim and hot air! Don't be FOOLED

Ki im l'sh'eiro hakarov eilav.Ein sh'eiro ella ishto.(Rashi)The Torah is teaching us that a wife ideally should be the CLOSEST person to ourselves! Even closer than our fathers & mothers! **** V'ish ki yochal kodesh bishgaga... V'hisiu osam avon ashma b'achlam ess kad...

I saw a mind blowing Chazal today that can provide tremendous chizzuk to all of us that are struggling or that fell in the past. The Torah tells us that while a Cohen is permitted to marry a widow, a Cohen Gadol, however, is forbidden. The question is why. I saw brought d...

Listen to a short message of Chizuk regarding Pesach Sheini (3.5 min).

It is brought down in many places, especially in the chassidish sefarim, that a person needs friends to help him in avodas Hashem. Chazal say: כל הגדול מחבירו יצרו גדול ממנו. The Beis Aharon of Karlin read this in the following way: כל הגדול - מחבירו - Whoever is gre...

To add to the testimonial regarding "The movie theater up in heaven," I too think like that when it comes to fighting the ultimate fight against my yezter hara. I recently installed a nanny cam in my house which saves clips on a cloud, and I sometimes watch mysel...

In this week's Parsha we learn about the animals, fish, insects, and birds that we may not eat. The Torah describes them as "Toeiva" - an abomination. We are taught that by eating these things we are destroying our Neshamos, and the damage is very great. Why is it that th...

We know "sheva yipol tzaddik v'kum". To fall seven times you have to have been up in between. The possuk tells us don't worry you will eventually stand without falling. But what about someone who remains on the ground the whole time. For where does he know that there is h...

Every place where the chometz was brought during the year, requires careful inspection (bedikah). This means to say that everyone needs to inspect his soul for place that the "chometz" (i.e. the Evil Inclination) dwells there, each one according to his or her level. For e...