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September 18, 2022 6:42 pm at 6:42 pm #2126006bored_teen 💕Participant
I took a small break from CR and now I’m back. I have to say that the tone and behavior have changed a lot! It seems that a some of the posters have forgotten that we here, on CR hold ourselves with the utmost dignity. We never call people names or make negative insinuations about the character of other posters! Moron? really?!?!
September 18, 2022 11:50 pm at 11:50 pm #2126091Moish26ParticipantThe coffee room is wrong be’etzem in its core, besides for the lashon hara and name calling that goes on,
Ps I don’t know why no one cares about the truth of how bad the cr is
September 19, 2022 1:53 am at 1:53 am #2126099yungermanSParticipantWe should each be doing introspection on a daily basis and not just only when were approaching rosh Hashana and during the days of Teshuva in Elul
September 19, 2022 6:32 am at 6:32 am #2126115commonsaychelParticipant@26 so why are you here?
September 19, 2022 8:21 am at 8:21 am #2126137Reb EliezerParticipant@26 chap that it was proven that your views are not considered relevant.
September 19, 2022 9:16 am at 9:16 am #2126164Reb EliezerParticipantThe Ben Ish Chai says that the name שד-י the Almighty is the name to fight the yetzer hara with as when each letter of יצר is written in full יוד, צדי and ריש the last letters add up to שד-י. When we recognize the Almighty, we realize that He gives us the strength and abilities to be able to fight the yetzer hara. It says in the parashas Ki Seitzei that if we fight the yetzer hara, ונתנו ה’ אלקיך בידך, Hashem will help us to capture him. The Chasam Sofer gives us a practical means to fight him. It says ושבית שביו grab a methodology from the yetzer hara. He sways us away from Hashem step wise in slow increments. He does not want for us to violate the greatest aveiros but starts from the smallest ones first. Similarly when correcting ourselves we should improve ourselves by fixing incrementally our smallest violations first. It says סור מרע ועשה טוב, turn away from bad and do good בקש שלום ורדפהו, look for peace and chase it, fight it, fight the peace that the yetzer hara is making. There is always a conflict between body and soul. What one wants, the other does not. But the yetzer hara makes peace by having the soul want what the body wants. We should disturb this peace and have the soul do something that the body does not like and continue doing it until we make peace by having the body get used to it. Continue this by improving ourselves constantly in small increments.
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