Yidden! I am getting so many cries for help lately! So many people are falling, so many want to give up! I honestly don’t remember a day like today in a while.
And it could be, I think I know why...
The depression, lack of motivation, Yiush and hopelessness are signs that all these holy Jewish souls are in sync with the spiritual channels of this time of year. Tonight is Ta'anis Ester, and that is exactly what the Jews all felt then. There seemed to be no hope at all. They were all destined to die a horrible death. And it is precisely this deep helplessness led them to true teffilah and Teshuvah, and hence the great salvation of Purim!
It says by Amalek: “Asher Karcha Baderech”. The Beis Ahron of Karlin says that Karcha is a Lashon of:
1) Kora – a heavy beam. The Amalek inside us tries to weigh down heavily on our heads, making the struggle feel so “heavy” and difficult.
2) Kerirus – Coldness. He makes the hearts of the yidden cold to Avodas Hashem.
3) Keri – A Lashon of Tumah. He is always trying to find ways to be Mitameh – defile – the Jewish soul and wants to get us to be Pogem Habris.
Amalek tries to destroy us from HEAD to FOOT.
On Purim we WON OVER Amalek. We get drunk. We give away our minds and hearts to Hashem. We don’t think. We don’t argue with the Yetzer Hara. We go ABOVE the SECHEL. He can only be fought "lima'lah min hada'as". The Yetzer Hara consistently asks questions like Pharaoh did: "Who is Hashem that I should listen to him?" and “What do I have from my Avodas Hashem?” The Yetzer Hara cannot be answered with logic. Instead, as it says by the Rasha: "Hakeh es Shinav" - knock out his teeth. Don't even get into an argument with him.
So I ask you please, all of you who feel there’s no hope. Amalek is trying his hardest at this time of year to enter our minds, our hearts and to get control over the holy Bris. Ta’anis Ester is the VESSEL for the light of Purim. As the Zohar says, there is no light that doesn’t come first through darkness. The helplessness we feel now is the VESSEL for the light of the salvation that is about to come down - if we can only merit to bring it down.
The things we can accomplish on Purim are mind just boggling. "Kol Haposeach Yad Nosnim Lo – whoever asks is given".
I am asking everyone this Purim to get good drunk and cry and cry to Hashem. Say Tehilim and don’t stop crying. You will see miracles you never dreamed were possible!

Rage ATM wrote on 04 Jan 1974 04:37:

get NUTS?? As i f it isnt already!! But trust me.....IM LOVIN IT!!!!!!!!!!!




K E E P  O N  T R U C K I N ! ! !

b'h, i used my online time to convo with the newbies, what a mitzvah
briefly, i made it the whole last night.
Hashem turned up the juice to the next level
Iv'e got a triggering lady of a neighbor who invests all their $$$ into fashion and TRIGGERING THINGS, and for their repetwoire of two girls
and this lady's got no husband...so no "how can you look at ___" factor
and her key got lost s/where in bnei brak
and they just came back from a simcha, all done up vichulay
and they were locked outta their house
and it was close to zero degrees last night, so my frau invited them all in, all three non males
and the guys came 40 min. later to be poreitz the door and make a new lock
and that took half an hour
and tzaddik90 already had hirhurim issues (BIGGEST UNDERSTATEMENT EVER MADE IN MODERN HISTORY) with this one

so GOD turned up the juice
it was like akeidas yitzchak
so i tried to learn
glance...glance...glance....
so i turned on the netbook and begain to lain the GYE handbook with trupp
it helped an extra %18
God appreciated it
and the whole night i fought, without fighting, and won, with brilliant resilience and resolution

in the morning i still had the nisayon, now for over 16 hours
and i slipped...and then....and i said "boy is this floor cold!"

and i was happy
because if i triggered you all and told you the details of the slip, you'd see how it was on an unbelievably innocent and new breathtaking level in this battle
and if you knew how i'd ....the floor's cold....you'd understand that i am %100 proven irrefutably on a huge amazing new madreiga relative to my struggle
and i held out for 16 hours, when 3 lions came into my house?!
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there are amazing things happening here at GYE and i am thankful to GOd and gaurd, and the va'ad harrabanim that have helped me along the way
and i am proud to share
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simchas by all

T90
Hashavua tov licha ulichol yisroel

Herr ois. Tishma.

Atta tzarich likross hahandbook binigun truup shell megillas ester

I'm ish licha mishkafayim

Zeh yoter kal

O atta omer li-shtecha. Anee holech lihispallell marriv

Hee omered

Kvar hitpalalta

Ata omer : adar bet mitpalilin bet

Pre-Purim weight loss program ad:

"Go from a jolly, goofy Achashveirosh to a lean, mean Haman in three short weeks, with our HaKEO (hashseeyah kados - ein oneis) program! With our HaKEO (vomiting) program, you will lose so much weight, so quickly, that you will need to cut your tfillin straps shorter than ever!"

Oy vei...maybe vomiting isn't something to bring up on an addiction website...but it's Purim, man. C'mon...