The following is a transcript of a talk that Rabbi Twerski gave at a dinner on behalf of the Guard Your Eyes Yiddish division (hitdanoigen.com) in Monroe, New York, in…

The following is a transcript of a talk that Rabbi Twerski gave at a dinner on behalf of the Guard Your Eyes Yiddish division (hitdanoigen.com) in Monroe, New York, in…
Finding happiness and self-worth in life is a difficult trait in times in which routine and materialism pervade our daily activities. Many people go through life without knowing or understanding…
The following are excerpts from an interview with Rabbi Twerski on a CD called Caught in the Web produced by Torah Umesorah in 2007. Internet Addiction — Early Exposure It’s…
Love is a word that in our culture has almost lost its meaning. There’s a very interesting story about the Kotzker Rebbe, who came across a young man who was…
December 2009 It’s not the same world that I grew up in. I’ll tell you something else — it’s not the same world into which you were born. The world…
This article, like the others in this section, were transcribed from talks that Rabbi Twerski gave. A lobster is a soft, mushy animal that lives inside of a rigid shell.…
Often, a major factor in the cycle of addiction is the perception of low self-esteem and shame that feeds on itself as a result of the acting-out behaviors. These feelings…
Reprinted from Hamodia I’m a twenty-one-year-old yeshivah bachur. I went to prominent American yeshivos all my life and am now learning in a famous yeshivah in Eretz Yisrael. Modesty aside,…
Reprinted from Hamodia Why Do People Inherently Have Low Self-Esteem? I found a comment of Rabbi Twerski in a recent interview disturbing. To say that 99.9 percent of people don’t…
Reprinted from Hamodia I know that you have addressed this problem in the past, but I am desperate for help. As a yeshivah bachur, I fell into the trap of…