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…
by abrahamtwerski
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…
Reprinted from Hamodia Although a person should have a sense of self-esteem by virtue of his neshamah, and because we are all children of Hashem, this applies when a person…
Reprinted from Hamodia To someone suffering from low self-esteem, Rabbi Twerski writes: The Torah relates that when the meraglim returned from Eretz Canaan, they said that the land was inhabited…
Reprinted from Hamodia A Hamodia reader asks: Thank you for your advice and clarity on many pertinent issues. Your responses are so on target and helpful. A recent query discussed…