The truth is that secular rehabs do not teach the twelve step method as it is supposed to be taught. They alter it to accommodate these laws. They teach the addicts that they can create their own imaginary higher power, it doesn’t have to be G-d, it can be whatever they wish. The wind, the...Read More

The answer is that the addict once experienced and chasing the high, is a being of total שלא לשמה , doing not for the sake of G-d, only to fill his own desire of fulfillment. He can learn twenty hours a day of Torah for his own ego, or to fill his own selfish desire...Read More

The 12 step method is a spiritual process to cure the spiritual malady of addiction. As we explained earlier the illness of addiction is the distorted longing of the soul for the relationship with his Creator and its intense pleasure of completion, masked in the form a drug, alcohol, or some other physical pleasure giving...Read More

As we said before, addiction is a spiritual malady. It is not a psychological or neurological disorder, so medicine can’t cure it. It is not simply a bad dynamic that can be changed. It is an illness buried deep inside the addicts will to live. No CBT can help him as he not in control...Read More

Every person has a spiritual soul which has built into it the desire to feel alive, truly alive, by being in a close relationship with his Creator. This desire to feel truly alive gets distorted as it is filtered through the physical body. The person then imagines this desire for life as a physical desire...Read More

The primary characteristic which sets the addict apart from regular people with problems controlling themselves is that the standard person with a drinking problem retains a basic level of control over his life, despite his periodic struggles with his drinking intake. An addict on the other hand has lost control over his life to the...Read More

The first thing to know about addictions is that “addicts” are not just regular people with a problem controlling their drive for drinking or drug intake. They are not individuals that simply chase תאוה . Addicts are a category of their own, it is a severe illness, a חולי נפש (inasmuch as the addict will...Read More

Growing up as far back as I remember, I was never happy. I had everything I physically wanted. grew up in a stable, comfortable home, two parents, average kid in school, friends, but somehow I always felt different, never comfortable in my own skin As a child I knew money was not the key to...Read More

Starting off from a young age I always felt disconnected from everyone around me and life seemed like a burden.I felt different because I grew up with a single mom. I thought everyone with two parents had life easier. I would distract myself with electronics, sports and attention but nothing was ever enough until I...Read More

My name is Shimi.  In spite of the fact that I come from  warm, frum family in Brooklyn, ever since I was a little boy, I always sensed that there was something profoundly different with me. I was seemingly a regular  boy in yeshivah and even though I was popular, athletic and successful in my studies, I felt empty; like there was...Read More