This past shabbos, the Rabbi spoke about how “frum scandal” is the new yetzer harah, he spoke about how the frum scandal is used an excuse by people who don’t want to grow in their yiddishkeit. He’s absolutely right in…
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The yetzer harah is strong in the nine days
I went for a ride in the Sierra foothills today about an hour east of Sacramento, the ride was basically around a beautiful clear lake the entire time. As I snaked through the woods on this amazing super fast singletrack,…
Pigging out on carpas
I’m fidgeting around, picking scabs, wondering how on earth I could gash my middle finger open on something as stupid as cleaning, when I’;m cutting, dicing and chopping all day long – basically my concentration is on anything besides the…
Facebook is a threat to the purity of Jewish families
As many of you may know Mark Zuckerberg was named Time person of the year and of course someone on Vos Iz Neias made a comment on how it threatens the sanctity of the pure Jewish family with its promotion…
Do you repeat shmona esrei when you miss ya’ale v’yavo?
I missed ya’ale vayavo during one of my shmona esrei’s this past rosh chodesh and I didn’t bother repeating it, I, or rather my yetzer harah took over the justification aspect of the issue and started saying to myself that…
Just because you look at Jewish porn doesn’t mean your a sex addict
In continuation of yesterdays post about married folks organizing their lives around niddah calendars… I love reading the Jewish Press mostly for the chronicles of crisis section in which right wing therapists talk about everything in crisis or sickness mode.…