Torah's Healing Waters
"If there's no water, it's hard to
put out fire even if you know it burns"
Scroll down for all the great links!
One struggling member recently wrote us something beautiful and so true: "I need Kedusha to counteract Tumah. I need it regularly, and it will replace filthy thoughts with powerful desires to grow in a positive way. I know it works, I've experienced it and tasted the exhilarating sweetness and freedom that living "confined" to the guidelines of Torah truly represents. Postings and books on other non-Jewish porn-addiction websites, essentially describe the struggle between the yetzer tov and the yetzer hora but don't really have a substitute for being filled with filth. If there's no water, it's hard to put out fire, even if you know it burns".
"Barasi Yetzer Hara, Barasi Torah Tavlin - I created a Yetzer Hara, and I created the Torah as a medicine".
Make sure to learn Torah every day!
Here are some ideas:
(send us
your Torah tips as well!)
- There's nothing like a Daf Yomi
Shiur. Gemara is "Sechel Hayashar" meaning "straight
thinking", and when a person is thinking straight the Yetzer
Hara can't get a grip on him!
The Rebbes of Karlin used to say that the best mussar sefer is
a blat of Gemara....
"Im paga becha menuval zeh, mashcheihu libeis hamedrash -
if the Menuval meets up with you, drag him to the beis Medrash".
Even if you're not a big Talmid Chacham, take an English Artscroll
Gemara, go to the nearest Bet Medrash and spend a half an
hour uninterruptedly in a blat Gemara. Sink your mind into
the questions and answers of Chazal, work out the intricacies of a
sugya, and you will walk away feeling freer than ever!
"Ain ben Chorin Ela Mi She'osek Batorah -
There is no free man
like he who delves in the Torah" .
- Infuse your soul with holiness and
read a few minutes of Zohar once in a while. Even if you don't
understand it, your soul will feel the intrinsic holiness therein and it
will cleanse you out. (Zohar is known to be a special Segulah
to save one from the grasp of the Yetzer Hara. See Chizuk e-mail
#476 on
this page).
- For a little taste of the entire spectrum of the Torah, read each day's
Chok Le'yisrael,
for a little Torah, Nevi'im, Kesuvim, mishnayos, Talmud and
Zohar. Altogether, the perfect potion to keep the yetzer hara
far away!
- One member writes how he learns a
few lines of Mesilas Yesharim each morning to set the tone for the
day.
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1) www.halachos.com - Learn two Halachos of Hilchos Shabbos every day. Sign up here.
2) Get daily translations of the Zohar portions of Chok Le'Yisrael. Sign up at this e-mail address: rhayyim@gmail.com
3) A great Daily Halacha email list that deals with Halachos of the whole year round. Send requests to: Dailyhalacha@aol.com
4) Halachos of the whole year round: halachafortoday.com5) A daily email from The sefer Chofetz Chaim "Daily Companion". To join, send an email with the word "subscribe" in the subject line to: dcompanion@chofetzchaimusa.org
Important Tip: When learning,
have in mind the saying of Chaza"l about the Torah that
"Hame'or Shebo Machziro Lemutav" - "The light in it [the Torah]
will bring one back to good". If one has this in mind while
learning, he can double the
power that the Torah has in helping him get rid of the Yetzer
Hara!
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Audio & Video (lots of
fun! Browse, download, listen and watch at one’s leasure)
And as one member wrote us: "it’s good to use
the same tool, the computer, for a kosher enjoyment, to make a
kaporah for using it in the wrong ways".
www.613.org - Lots of great shiurim. (We particularly suggest a series of shiurim on Emunah by Rabbi Wolfson over here).
www.naaleh.com - Enjoy hundreds of Torah Video Classes FREE Online in streaming, MP3 audio and IPOD video downloads
www.torahweb.org - listen to Rabbi Twerski talk about addictions + hundreds of other audio and video
www.kolhaloshon.com - listen and download mp3 files
theshmuz.com – Rabbi Shafier from Chofetz Chaim in Queens – torah and hashkafa, PERFECT for working yeshiva guys!!!
www.rabbileff.net - Rabbi Leff is extremely down-to-earth and wonderful to listen to.
www.ilovetorah.com - hundreds of video and audio lessons, chizuk, stories of tzaddikim
www.yutorah.org - YU Torah on-line. Over 23,000 Shiurim!
hadafhayomi.co.il - Daf Yomi in English, Hebrew or Yiddish - Video or Audio!
www.learnTorah.com - Torah classes by Sephardic rabbis (mostly)
www.teachittome.com - Audio library of Torah classes and lectures
Torah & Personal
Growth
www.torah.org
www.dafyomi.co.il - English
summaries of every Daf in Shas!
www.yiddishkeit.org
www.koshertorah.com
www.HalachaForToday.com
www.revach.net
- Great words of wisdom
and beautiful articles!
www.aish.com
www.chabad.org
www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles - inspiring
articles by Rabbi Moss in Australia
www.globalyeshiva.com
- Torah networking
Moral Purity
Kabbalah
www.nehorapress.com - The
Kabbalah of R'Ashlag, the Ba'al Hasulam
www.inner.org -
Rav Gisburgh of Galenai
www.ascentofsafed.com - Rabbi Tilles
TheWellsprings.org - Rabbi
J. Markel
www.obshalom.org - Rabbi
Goltlieb, student of the son of the Ba'al Hasulam (Site is in
Hebrew, with video Shiurim 24 hours)
www.kabbalah.info - Michael
Leitman, student of the son of the Ba'al Hasulam.
Warning! Please see
Footnote 1 at the bottom of
this page.