In 2009, Rabbi Twerski shared with us this article. Sixty-five years ago, in high school, I learned a powerful mussar lesson, but I did not realize it at the time.…
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There was an incident that taught me something about turning to Hashem for help.At a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous in Jerusalem, one man who was seven years sober related that…
There are many people who are desperate and say that they would do anything to be free of the compulsion. Here is something that will indeed take much effort, but…
A man told me that he was at the airport, and he had his tallis and tefillin in his carry-on. “I had to go to the men’s room, so I…
The yetzer hara deludes people into thinking that life is for pleasure. The feeling of looking back upon one’s life and realizing that it was all in futility is the…
In my lectures about drug addiction, I often cite the com- ment of a fourteen-year-old girl who was interviewed about Nancy Reagan’s campaign of “Just Say ‘No!’ to Drugs.” The…
“They were drunk although not with wine, they staggered although they drank no ale” (Yeshayahu 29:9). In the field of alcoholism treatment, there is a concept of a “dry drunk.”…
A young man asked a gadol what he could do to keep himself from looking at the indecent things on bill- boards, in store windows, etc. The gadol responded: “The…
One of the slogans of the Twelve-Step Program is “Keep it simple (stupid).m It is important to keep things simple. We make things difficult by complicating them. “Simple” does not…
Every so often there is a news item about research showing promise of a drug that can cure alcohol or drug addic- tion. Thus far, nothing like a cure has…