Pidaini wrote:

The reason being because
Pidaini wrote:




Pidaini wrote:

I have a better word: Proclamation

also...we found out that some people use lassania as a higher power (however its spelled....im not from italy)

Are we forgetting something here???
Last night was the first

Grapes or caramels? Perhpas more importantly,

apparently zemmy got word that ive been sneaking out of hiding cause he sent a bunch of helicopters.
had a whole bunch of donuts, continued reading from step 2 in the 12 and 12 and talked and stuff.
due to the fact that once i put something in my knapsack i generally dont take it out till pesach, we had a book copy of the 12 and 12 and didnt have to use an unmentionable.

(if another OINKer can post something of actual substance about the meeting please do. my brains not working even the tiny amount it sometimes does)

Yes, everyone needs to make sure their phones are not bugged, and their are no hidden cameras, installed by the ex-na-nach giraffe.

So, double dips this week we enjoyed it so much without TZ we decided we should chap arein just kidding!!!!!, it's exactly the opposite-we needed double the chizzuk cause TZ wasn't there the first time.

Intros, check. One thing that stood out, someone asked pinchas #4 "do you come here and get chizzuk from hearing that some of us fell" (in other words, what do you get out of coming?) answer: "I come to be with people who say things that are exactly what I am going through, and I can really feel part of them"

12 and 12, talking about people who had a faith and left it, ouch, that's painful. "God didn't work out for us, he didn't do what WE wanted, I was doing fine until He decided to mix in" and how we can still reconnect, or more correctly, connect for real.

We also discussed precocious orthopedics
Syrian Politics
carmelized corn on Rosh Hashanah
non-prophet schools (don't teach Navi-thanks nitz)


ok, i'm tired so that's all for now

Was it one of you guys who wrote in to Rabbi Twersky's column, in this weeks Hamodia?

Pidaini wrote:

Of course double dips,


moish u.k. wrote:


It wasn't me, but it's highly probable!!!
Also he spells it Twerski, with an "i".

tehillimzugger wrote:


Thanks. But me's trying to Guard my "i"s

moish u.k. wrote:


it could have been if not that

1) I don't think any of us would call ourselves kollel yungerleit (either a rebbe, rosh kollel, mashgiach. but plain "kollel yungerman, that's boring)

2) We are all either not yet married, married under 5 years, or married well over 5 years.

3) We don't learn mussar together, just basics about human life (just for you Dov)

4) We don't normally get together twice a week.

5) none of us have been abstinent for close to a year (either less or more)

6) We BH have more than 6 people in our group

Besides for that it makes perfect sense that it was indeed one of us.

Does gas masks count as syrian politics?

I passed our oink spot while on the sherut!!!

I am sitting here at Ben Gurion and I am scared to go back home. I have already seen more pritzus than i should i ever see. Thank God i diverted my eyes (success!) But for the short time I have been in Israel, I have done much growing. I thank you all for helping me get to this point. I feel so good to have shared my story to real people. I think from only that point can true healing begin, and it has. I feel much calmer and no i dont feel this, incredible close feeling to Hashem, even after R"H. But i have opened the doors. And as we all know,, is it really us that making this connection or is more that we open ourselves up to let Him in. Ofcourse we must do our hishtadlus but no matter how many Mitzvos we do, only Hashem determines if these are "valid' enough.

Also I have discovered that true recovery cannot take place until we fully admit that we are addicted. I am an addict and until I fully accept that i will keep falling or be atleast be a dry drunk. Of course this is the first think we say at our meetings and it is also the first thing that I say when I speak to Hashem. Admitting this fact, lets us feel powerlessness to the Yetzer and only Hashem can save us. And this feeling is ironically liberating. It frees us, allowing us to let go of this gashmius world connect to the Source.

I am truly grateful to you all, as you saved my life andI hope to be back in Israel as soon as possible

Daniel

'twas AWESOME knowing you Daniel Pinchas#8!!!!!!!!!!

Here's my OINK update: Throughout Rosh HaShana I was feeling very grateful to Hashem for all he had done for me in the past year, most specifically for bringing me to OINK. Anyway, second night during the meal my five-year-old-niece began humming to herself- out of the blue "Oink oink piggy piggy" her mother [as well as mine] was mortified... I grabbed her and began dancing with her, all around the dining room singing at the top of our lungs OINK OINK PIGGY PIGGY
My mother didn't know what to make of it: Rosh Hashana beinacht?!?!?
Too bad...

OINK OINK PIGGY PIGGY!!
love it!
moiredig in de velt
Guard should put this in the chizuk email imho

I knew that I felt an unusual eis ratzon here fartoogs the second day...

Now I know why!