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GuardYourEyes Chizuk E-Mail (No. 1191)
Getting stronger every day!
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Rabbi Feuerman's Friday Phone Conference
Parshas Miketz - " It is NEVER Satisfying enough."
8:30 AM NY Time
3:30 PM Israel Time
The call-in number is: U.S: 209 255 1000 Israel: 076 599 0060 Participant PIN: 637207# For archive of previous Shiurim see here.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ STARTING NEXT WEEK! SAME TIME, SAME PLACE.
Did you ever wonder if maybe, just maybe, you got it ALL wrong? Would you like to rewind the clock on your marriage, start fresh, and this time, do it right?
A new shiur series by Rabbi Feuerman beginning Friday, Dec 26:
The Chosson (and Kallah) Shmooze you WISH you had, but never got!
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Category: Torah Thought
Based on letters and talks of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi M. M. Schneerson
Sometimes, it's taken out of your hands to determine where you should go, what you should do, and how it should be done. Sometimes you are Joseph, captured and tied to a destiny too great for you to fathom.
Sometimes you need to be quiet and just do what needs to be done. Do the best with whatever you're given - honestly and earnestly. And put your confidence in your real Employer.
Likutei Sichot volume 18, page 293 ff; Derech Mitzvosecha, Taglachat Mtzora.
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Category: Member Chizuk
Two Years of Slow-briety
By Chani S.
Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb
Firstly, I have to thank GYE for the daily emails that give me strength and sanity to keep going on my path of recovery. December 9 is the day I got sober, and I just celebrated my second sober anniversary. I have to say that the first year of sobriety was a little easier. It felt like a honeymoon period. I was finding a Higher Power and feeling good that I didn't have to struggle with this addiction alone, and I had God on my side. I completed the first three steps during my first year, and gave birth to my first child in sobriety. Then came my second year, and I started my fourth step, which is all about looking into myself and discovering my character flaws and this is HARD work. I don't find it so rewarding just yet, but I know that the end of all this hard work means being clearer with myself, knowing who I am without my addiction, and striving to be the best person I can be. This year was hard. I had a couple slips, but was able to pick myself up past the slips without falling into my addiction again. I find it hard, because lust is all around, and there's no way to actually get rid of it completely, but I can be a healthier person spiritually and help myself when I find that I am struggling. Women, and men, keep working the program! Find sober buddies to help support you on this path and trudge it together. May you find peace and serenity in your life. ~~~~~~~~~~~ Share your success story. We are looking for accounts from female members in particular. There are many women and girls out there who struggle and don't know that sexual sobriety is possible. Help them by sharing your recovery success.
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One-liner
A little light chases away a lot of darkness.
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Announcement
The Nesivos Shalom Conference Call
SUNDAY Mornings from 9AM to 9:30AM EST
Reb Noach Schwartz, LCSW will give a shiur in Nesivos Shalom specially geared to GYE members, followed by insights, sharing and Q&A.
*Kindly call in for an enjoyable, educational, and chasidishe schmooze!*
Call in number:
From U.S: (605) 562-3131
Israel: (076) 599-0060
(From other countries, see this page)
PIN# 952533 (for all countries)
For Reb Noach's therapy page here. For Reb Noach's website here.
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Category: Attitude
Knowing vs. Doing
I am only one, but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
--Edward Everett Hale
We once heard someone say, "Knowing doesn't keep you sober, doing does." We got the point.
Our actions, not strictly our knowledge, will help us stay sober. Recovery is a program of action, of doing something that will contribute to our recovery today.
All the knowledge in the world won't help us recover if we don't use what we've learned.
Like good intentions, knowledge is only the beginning. Next, we must do - and not do - the things we've learned will help us make progress in recovery.
It's up to us to put the Steps to work in our lives today.
We are responsible for eating right and exercising, going to meetings, finding a Higher Power, and praying or meditating to continually strengthen our spiritual lives.
Knowing what we must do is a good first step.
Putting that knowledge into action, one day at a time, will bring us the joys of real recovery and a new life.
Today I pray that, through Your power, I have what I need to take action for my recovery.
Care to comment?
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Call to Action
The Best Hanukah Gift For Your Kids
For today's Chizuk e-mail, I point you to an inspiring article written by Tzvi Fishman on his Arutz Sheva Blog:
At the center of this month's Torah readings is Yosef HaTzaddik. The Holy Zohar teaches that Yosef earned the esteemed title of Tzaddik because he guarded the Covenant of sexual purity. This is what brought him to kingship over the world. "Rabbi Shimon said, 'It was only after Yosef withstood the test of temptation (with Potiphor's wife) that he was called Tzaddik. Since he guarded the holy Brit, he was called Tzaddik'" (Zohar,Bereshit 194b).
Day after day, dressed in the most immodest outfits, the wife of Potiphor would approach the young Hebrew slave and beckon him to her quarters. She would whisper seductive things in his ear. Yosef's test wasn't just a onetime thing. She kept after him for months on end, doing everything in her powers to cast her spell over him. On that fateful day when she threw herself at him with all of her charms, she made sure that no one else was in the house. The only thing standing between Yosef and the forbidden act was his fear of G-d. His father and family were hundreds of miles away, he was in the prime of his strength, she was the most beautiful and seductive woman in Egypt, and still he resisted.
In praising Yosef's achievement, the Zohar emphasizes that guarding the Covenant of sexual holiness is like observing all of the Torah, "guarding the Brit is equal in weight with the whole Torah" (Zohar, Bereshit 197a). In our time, each of us is tempted every day with the very same test when we sit down at the computer. Thousands of seductive women are just a quick click away. Today, the Internet is Potiphor's wife.
Continue reading...
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