I am not jewish yet. Unfortunately, I have had an addiction and I have come to the Jewish faith. I wish there were a set of prayers I could use on a daily basis to maintain purity and stuff. I tried searching online,but they are hard to come by. I am not even sure if those prayers are the ways that most Jewish folks would say.
I just wish I could get the three morning, afternoon, and bedtime prayers. Since I have not been circumcised or gone through the whole ritual, I am not certain if saying those prayers is even appropriate. I obviously cannot read Hebrew at all. I just hope that I am not just using religion or God to get what I want and then abandon him.
I have always been spiritually inclined. However, a part of me wishes to achieve material success. I know you cannot have one without the other. I was not raised in a wealthy family but rather in a low and average family so as a result, I thought if I worked hard, get a good education and got a high-paying job like most people would to make their elders proud of them and to be financially independent, I would be happy. I am only 20, and a part of me just seems highly ambitious and want success so badly. However, you can't have both spirituality and ambition at the same time. I may have to sacrifice the latter to hone in the former. I just don't know. I feel like I have to give up success to become spiritual. I thought spirituality originally meant living in seclusion and being an ascetic and renouncing all material pleasures and that one cannot enjoy any success even if it were financial and that one must be a hermit and stuff. I was wrong.
What can I start doing to stay clean? I don't have any money to pay for donations and I do not have an income. There is no way I am able to donate even after recovery. Do I really need to make a donation after recovery? Does this mean i will never recover if I don't? It's hard. Times are tough in this day and age and our economies are not doing so well worldwide. I am not sure where you are from, but we are from the U.S.
A strange and unhealthy thought had just come to my mind. I had actually used God at one point for a lot of good things that happened to me. I just feel like God will not care about my desires, my ambitions, and taht since wealth does not mean a thing to God, I didn't pray about it. i just wanted success and porn is robbing me of that material success.I feel that since god has not yet healed me completedly, I feel that I am wasting my time dwelling on guilt on the days I watch porn. I do so subconsciously and I definitely do want to weaken those neuronal connections that are simply not healthy.
I feel like a part of me keeps blaming on God and yelling,"God, you have ruined my life completely."