kedusha your are entirely responsible for all I'm doing, I never had a hava amina to do nthis, untill I saw u doing it!! again and again!!

The Kaliver rebbe has tons of teens open-up to him about this. SO I'll call-up and discuss the R tzaddok I found, and give this site, forum, haskamos, everything.  I'l have the gabai print it up, before the conversation!!  All thanks to U

Dear SE,

Keep up the wonderful work!  None of us can do it alone (including Guard).

GO SE GO! ;D

In trying to make this as easy as "click, print, mail". I created a google file with open-access, to veiwing, and selective access for editing.    to get editing privelages please receive security clearance from GUARD (i mean me!  he he he he he)    WHo gets the last word now, moderators!!!!!!

But jokes aside, at least untill i get the point across, i am collecting letters that could be either emailed or mailed to rabanim. the more people submit to me (via email) the more people will have to choose from.  Eventualy i hope to make  both an internet copy, and a printable copy.

Anyonw who feels they have ANY corrections what-so-ever, send me your corrected version (via email) and I'll add it to the file.  Any 'regulars' who want editing power, just ask, and I'll add your email adress to the list.

I Sent Out Letters and th haskamos To Two Rabbis With Big shuls.

Nice

BTW can you email me the letters you used, so that other ppl can 'recycle' them?

I created a google folder for this puropose. That will hopefully serve as the one stop destination for "GYE Postcards" complete will everything, excespt an adress and stamp (free if sent by email-and I volenteer to send them 4 U if you want)

docs.google.com/leaf?id=0BwMOX_qnRbp9MGY1YmQ2YzgtMmFjOS00YzFiLWFmZmQtZWFmZmRjZWFiMTc1&hl=en

i still gotta figure-out how to get the presentation linked as a file document, oh simple form the GYE site link!!  Ok but i will have to get to it later



Cmon Guests just use it, even if you will never havethe guts to say anything. oh and guard hopefully you willb able ton add this to the daily shizuk email. SA one simpkl lick that has all the info needed.

Important update: The Rosh Yeshiva has requested that one of these two versions of his letter (which do not mention the GYE website) be used in venues where the Internet is not being used by virtually everyone. 

I have asked Guard to post these versions on the GYE site.

Version #1 (no mention of GYE site; uses the word "pornography"):

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

There is an international scourge attacking the Jewish People: this is the widespread addiction of men to pornography. Fueled mainly by the Internet, but no less by other means of communication such as telephone and DVDs, this scourge threatens to tear apart the fabric of Jewish life and undermine one of its major foundations, that of tzenius (moral restraint).

This addiction has spared no class of Jews: from teenagers to kollel members, from office workers to Rabbis, and from single to married men. I have seen personal lives ruined and marriages wrecked because of this relentless temptation.

A single individual has undertaken to stem this tide of destruction, despite the personal and financial strain which this entails. This is the anonymous administrator of the program known as “Guard Your Eyes.” By utilizing methods which have proved successful in treating other addictions, and by providing constant encouragement, support and strategies to victims, “Guard Your Eyes” has successfully helped wean hundreds, if not thousands, from pornographic addiction and has helped return them to normal life.

I have seen the materials and handbooks which this program distributes and have only praise for its methodology and approach to the problems of the addicts. Everything which I have seen conforms to the highest standards of Torah values. I highly recommend anyone who suffers from this problem to avail himself of this effective program.

“Guard Your Eyes” is worthy of the encouragement and financial support of every Jew.
May HKBH grant its administrator the wisdom, the strength and the means to continue this holy work, and may it help return the Jewish People to becoming a nation regarding whom it is written, והתקדשתם והייתם קדושים (“Sanctify yourselves and you shall then be holy”).

With deep respect,

Aharon Feldman


Version #2 (no mention of GYE site; does not use the word "pornography"):

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

There is an international scourge attacking the Jewish People: this is the widespread addiction of men to viewing inappropriate material. Fueled mainly by the Internet, but no less by other means of communication such as telephone and DVDs, this scourge threatens to tear apart the fabric of Jewish life and undermine one of its major foundations, that of tzenius (moral restraint).

This addiction has spared no class of Jews: from teenagers to kollel members, from office workers to Rabbis, and from single to married men. I have seen personal lives ruined and marriages wrecked because of this relentless temptation.

A single individual has undertaken to stem this tide of destruction, despite the personal and financial strain which this entails. This is the anonymous administrator of the program known as “Guard Your Eyes.” By utilizing methods which have proved successful in treating other addictions, and by providing constant encouragement, support and strategies to victims, “Guard Your Eyes” has successfully helped wean hundreds, if not thousands, from this addiction and has helped return them to normal life.

I have seen the materials and handbooks which this program distributes and have only praise for its methodology and approach to the problems of the addicts. Everything which I have seen conforms to the highest standards of Torah values. I highly recommend anyone who suffers from this problem to avail himself of this effective program.

“Guard Your Eyes” is worthy of the encouragement and financial support of every Jew.
May HKBH grant its administrator the wisdom, the strength and the means to continue this holy work, and may it help return the Jewish People to becoming a nation regarding whom it is written, והתקדשתם והייתם קדושים (“Sanctify yourselves and you shall then be holy”).

With deep respect,

Aharon Feldman

More Letters In The Mail. I pray that the word gets out and I should be a good shalaich and only good comes through my hands.

A tremendous Yashar Koach, Holy Yid!

I think this thread should be renamed " the kiddush hashem" thread!!!

I have to say that im mekaneh all you guys!

Kutgw!!

Regarding the letter that the Rosh Yeshiva approved for virtually all venues, Guard should be posting it on the GYE site in the near future, and told me that he plans to include a link in today's Chizuk e-mail.

In the meantime, you can access it here.  (Save the file as a JPEG before printing).

This is the version that does not use the word "pornography," which is probably better in many venues.

Hey Kedusha, when you got a chance, can you help me collect all the original letters from R Feldman, in a google doc, and label them (we are only at 2, right).  Since we can send the publisher both- to 'hit him hard' with reality- and he'll only publish the "nice" one.


Also, I'll put both links on every "GYE Postcard"

imtrying25 wrote on 04 Feb 2010 22:16:


Why don't you lend a hand, before there is nothing left to be gelious of!!

And did anyone ever tell R Tzvi Meir about us? How about leaving him a pile of haskamos, and mybe using the "mishpacha" version will stop some kanai from burning the whole pile. I don't know how things work over there. but just say something like "I help bachurim and avreichim who have gotten caught-up in Internet Addiction. We have Haskamos, and a heter for such people to use the internet for our program. Please help allow us to be mezakeh the rabim, by circulating these print-outs of the haskamah at the shiur. and please give them to anyone that needs"

It would also help to have something written-up in hebrew about the hebrew forum, and hebrew website 'Haba Alaiu Letova' (Atid lavo sounds so 'far-off')

Ok who's gonna be the karban, or pay for my plane ticket to EY!!  *Veish Ki Yakriv Mikem Karban LaShem* Nu whouldn't want such a Toar?

SE, you're not in Eretz Yisrael? I seem to recall you mentioned hanging a sign in a shtible in ahem... Have you moved recently?

If yes, will you be coming back? Hey, you never know, we may need to "hire" you soon to work on PR full time    ;D

P.S. Still haven't forgotten your letter thing, just been too busy. Remind me to send you a bunch of letters to put up...