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Re: From now until MYK 09 Oct 2024 04:20 #423010

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TO KI SORISA i know the feeling. simchos are challenging. BUT HAVE A GREAT NIGHT, GOD LOVES YOU ME AND ALL OF US!!!@!!!!!!! SHIMONED1836@GMAIL.COM. I HOPE YOU SAW MY MESSAGE:like:
thank you so much for your kind words. i will share my full story later i am just exausted now. but inshort, traumatized as a child,beat up through school years by parents to get me to go to school, and i didnt want to go because all classmates made fun of me and excluded me from all class games, so who would want to go to school. how was it dealt with? principal came to my house in the morning and togehter with father literally dragged me out odf bed and into the car, to school and locked me up in principals office. hell on eartgh. i grew up and was super kadosh in shmiras einayim my whole life. one day i went to a knisiologist, when i was about 22 and she told me that my neshama sex drive is blocked and all my shmiras einayim was just from anxiety. she did some hocus pocus, waved her hands over my eyes and told me that now she cleared the neshama block. i went back to israel and exploded, that was the end of my shmiras einayim. then some doc told me to go to s.a., and unfortunately some shares are too explicit, and i found out where in israel there are open computers. i got terribly involved. but i recovered by focusing on a half hour daily prayer to hashem to help me, and getting busy with good things, listening to shiurim, researching a torah topic, and then feeling good about myself. i am doing much better than i was back then, but i still have not made it for more than a few weeks without being mzl. this is the story in short. i feel bad talking about myself so much, but this is only part of it. i didn't even say everything that happened to me. what i mentioned about school years was not one isolated event. this happened throughout fourth grade mainly, but it is alm olst unheard of that the school principal comes to the house and together with father breaks through locked bedroom door on numerous ocassions. and on a few different occassions my teacher would come with his van with 18kids, and he would drag me into his van and my own classmates would sit on me. on one occasion i jumped out of the principals car at 40 miles an hour on way to school. additionally, i would faint in school, and developed seizures from the anxiety. one time i didn;t go to school, and my mother locked me in my room for a week with a bread and water diet as punishment. my therapist told me, "you were not a trouble making kid, you were a kid in major trouble desperate for hell and your parents and principal etc. didn;t help you." i know this sounds like a fictious horror movie, but i swear in gods name that this happened to me shimon e. we are all going through the struggle together but you gotta admit that this is a little insane what i went through, and thank god in my later years it was just porn use (which is awful but relatively speaking) and not drug use or worse. a few rabbis asked me how i stayed frum religious after all that, and i said that it is my burning desire to be close to god. the work we are doing is not for the faint of heart that is for sure.

Re: From now until MYK 09 Oct 2024 04:30 #423012

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HEY KI SORISA!! Sounds like it is quite a struggle you are having like all of us. I read in bitachon weekly that god doesn't expect us to be angels. every little step counts. every time you turn away is HUGE!!! AT THAT MOMENT THAT YOUR HEAD IS TURNED AWAY AND YOU HAVE THAT BURNING URGE, CRY OUT TO HASHEM, AND SAY "HELP HASHEM, HELP! MY WILL IS TO DO YOUR WILL, BUT THIS CHALLENGE IS IMPOSSIBLE, I AM A HUMAN BEING FIGHTING AN ANGEL!!! AND THANK HASHEM!!! BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, EVEN IF YOU LOOK, GOD LOVES YOU UNCONDITIONALLY!!!!!!! SO FEEL GREAT EVERY TIME YOU DO TURN AWAY, AND FORGIVE YOURSELF EVERY TIME YOU DON'T. I WAS THERE AND KNOW THAT BURNING DESIRE FEELING!!! KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK ONE DAY AT A TIME, ONE MINUTE AT A TIME. AND IT WILL GET EASIER. THIS TOO SHALL PASS!!!!! HUGS, SHIMONED1836
thank you so much for your kind words. i will share my full story later i am just exausted now. but inshort, traumatized as a child,beat up through school years by parents to get me to go to school, and i didnt want to go because all classmates made fun of me and excluded me from all class games, so who would want to go to school. how was it dealt with? principal came to my house in the morning and togehter with father literally dragged me out odf bed and into the car, to school and locked me up in principals office. hell on eartgh. i grew up and was super kadosh in shmiras einayim my whole life. one day i went to a knisiologist, when i was about 22 and she told me that my neshama sex drive is blocked and all my shmiras einayim was just from anxiety. she did some hocus pocus, waved her hands over my eyes and told me that now she cleared the neshama block. i went back to israel and exploded, that was the end of my shmiras einayim. then some doc told me to go to s.a., and unfortunately some shares are too explicit, and i found out where in israel there are open computers. i got terribly involved. but i recovered by focusing on a half hour daily prayer to hashem to help me, and getting busy with good things, listening to shiurim, researching a torah topic, and then feeling good about myself. i am doing much better than i was back then, but i still have not made it for more than a few weeks without being mzl. this is the story in short. i feel bad talking about myself so much, but this is only part of it. i didn't even say everything that happened to me. what i mentioned about school years was not one isolated event. this happened throughout fourth grade mainly, but it is alm olst unheard of that the school principal comes to the house and together with father breaks through locked bedroom door on numerous ocassions. and on a few different occassions my teacher would come with his van with 18kids, and he would drag me into his van and my own classmates would sit on me. on one occasion i jumped out of the principals car at 40 miles an hour on way to school. additionally, i would faint in school, and developed seizures from the anxiety. one time i didn;t go to school, and my mother locked me in my room for a week with a bread and water diet as punishment. my therapist told me, "you were not a trouble making kid, you were a kid in major trouble desperate for hell and your parents and principal etc. didn;t help you." i know this sounds like a fictious horror movie, but i swear in gods name that this happened to me shimon e. we are all going through the struggle together but you gotta admit that this is a little insane what i went through, and thank god in my later years it was just porn use (which is awful but relatively speaking) and not drug use or worse. a few rabbis asked me how i stayed frum religious after all that, and i said that it is my burning desire to be close to god. the work we are doing is not for the faint of heart that is for sure.

Re: From now until MYK 10 Oct 2024 03:14 #423059

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Day 10. One of those days with loads of work but so freakin tired and no drive to do anything. Deep down was wishing I had access to something. Anytime I attempted to tackle something I found myself checking the news again for the umpteenth time. Just felt like one big fog today. Hope the sun shines bright tomorrow 

Re: From now until MYK 10 Oct 2024 03:18 #423060

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Hope it does
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Re: From now until MYK 13 Oct 2024 02:59 #423189

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#13. Had a slip up last Wednesday night as I dialed a chat line and totally forgot about my Kabbalah. Hung up pretty much right away before going further. Not counting it as reset and trucking ahead. Besides I’m a new man , I was given a new chance today and I will try my best. Wishing you all ah gut kvittel! Now I gotta rename this thread. All suggestions welcome 

Re: From now until MYK 13 Oct 2024 03:15 #423190

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Here’s a warm hand. Gutten Kvittle indeed! 
I think you’ve been writing a good Kvittle, friend! 

How bout “From now until Simchas Torah”? 

rooting for you. 
One day at a time.

Chaim 
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Re: From now until MYK 14 Oct 2024 04:36 #423256

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chaimoigen wrote on 13 Oct 2024 03:15:
Here’s a warm hand. Gutten Kvittle indeed! 
I think you’ve been writing a good Kvittle, friend! 

How bout “From now until Simchas Torah”? 

rooting for you. 
One day at a time.

Chaim 

Perhaps, thanks! Is there an option on the site to edit a threads name?
Last Edit: 14 Oct 2024 04:45 by ki sorisa.

Re: From now until MYK 14 Oct 2024 04:37 #423257

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Re: From now until MYK 15 Oct 2024 03:59 #423345

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Day 15.
Extremely busy these days with work and getting ready for the chagim which is bh very helpful. Boredom is no good for me especially if nothing pressing at work to take care of and that normally leaves me feeling quite unproductive. 
on another note I got caught up with work today and missed my chance of davening with a minyan, I sort of knew that that would happen but chose to finish up huge workload instead and ended up davening a butchered mincha beychidus. Feeling very guilty abt it especially two days after yk. A little voice in my head is pestering me that “hey don’t you see you don’t give a darn abt god, look at you when nobody is around you just skip mincha. Stop feeling so holy and like a good Jew, you’re a fraud…etc.. stop feeling goid abt yourself for trying to stay clean.. who are you fooling?!” 
trying to ignore this voice but very difficult to be honest..
Gnite brothers!
Last Edit: 15 Oct 2024 04:26 by ki sorisa.

Re: From now until MYK 16 Oct 2024 16:24 #423436

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Sorry for the ichy voice, my friend
My friend, that voice is where the YH gets us best. He tries to convince us that all of our life is one big cheshbon, with one bottom line. It doesn't work that way! Of course there are the things we do wrong, but the things we do right are ours forever! If a person lived and hypothetically all he did in his life was that he once had a test to say Lashon Hara, and he held himself in for two minutes, and then he blurted it out. When he gets up there, if he didn't do teshuva, for the aveirah he'll get some gehinnom, and then for the two minutes that he held himself in he'll receive reward in gan eden forever and ever and ever!!!!על כל רגע ורגע שאדם חוסם פיו זוכה לאור הגנוז שאין כל מלאך ובריה יכולים לשער!!!! Your keeping clean is chaviv mikol chaviv!
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Re: From now until MYK 16 Oct 2024 17:19 #423440

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ki sorisa wrote on 15 Oct 2024 03:59:
Day 15.
Extremely busy these days with work and getting ready for the chagim which is bh very helpful. Boredom is no good for me especially if nothing pressing at work to take care of and that normally leaves me feeling quite unproductive. 
on another note I got caught up with work today and missed my chance of davening with a minyan, I sort of knew that that would happen but chose to finish up huge workload instead and ended up davening a butchered mincha beychidus. Feeling very guilty abt it especially two days after yk. A little voice in my head is pestering me that “hey don’t you see you don’t give a darn abt god, look at you when nobody is around you just skip mincha. Stop feeling so holy and like a good Jew, you’re a fraud…etc.. stop feeling goid abt yourself for trying to stay clean.. who are you fooling?!” 
trying to ignore this voice but very difficult to be honest..
Gnite brothers!

Just curious, if you hadn't been doing so well the last 15 days and davened a butchered mincha, would it have bothered you so much then too?
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Re: From now until MYK 20 Oct 2024 01:04 #423456

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Gut Moed dear brothers! Didn't have a min before yt to log on and update. Bh day 20. All was smooth till last night when I started getting getting these very wanting feelings,and even had some dreams bh no wet ones. woke up today feeling nudgy but bh as the davening progressed I snapped out of it. I started thinking how in a week from now yt will be over and I started getting this sad feeling i always get when its over, like a lost hopeless dark feeling of an endless rest of the year without any meaning and drive. trying to stay mindful and hope that we don't have to have that same ending this year again. hopefully with moshiach tzidkeinu which i yearn for so much especially in these times and days! Amen!
Last Edit: 20 Oct 2024 01:58 by ki sorisa.

Re: From now until MYK 21 Oct 2024 03:34 #423501

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21. Thank you hashem!

Re: From now until MYK 22 Oct 2024 02:44 #423559

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Grumpy, down, irritated, tired, cranky, so so CRAVING. feeling so stifled being that Im all filtered up…started off with wife putting me down especially in front of the kids. Throbbing headache all day and starving and ZERO interest in doing all the trips and driving with the family. All I wanted to do is be all alone by myself. Schlepped around all day with wife and kids Lusted with my eyes like never before. Can’t believe I’m same person that wrote yesterdays post. End rant. Hating the filter at this moment.

Re: From now until MYK 22 Oct 2024 03:17 #423562

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I can somewhat relate. 
Cravings were there, as was the nudging with the wife. On my end! (I'm the moody one, and she's the pregnant one-I can't explain it!!!) 
BH my kids are easy on me, and they ran around the 'chol hamoed extravaganza' while myself and the 'chayah'  sat and shmoozed. I had to talk to her (not only because she's my wife of over 15 years and the mother of my children, but) because I couldn't get a hold over my eyes. They were flying all over town. 
Luckily we were only there a couple of hours. 
She did pick up on my grumpiness and she would probably be ok if I explained why I was grumpy but for whatever reason, I didn't want to explain to her that there were hundreds of gorgeous looking women out there! 
Anyways, here's a hand to you my fellow brotha from another motha (maybe. Or you may be my actual brother!) and may Hashem bless you with strength to ride out the overwhelming waves that sometimes (threaten to) topple us and overwhelm us.  
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