Cookies & Apples: The Kabbalah of Addiction
By Shifra Hendrie
via chabad.org
Imagine living a life where everything you crave--everything you do--actually hits the spot, leaving you present, alive, satisfied and fulfilled. What could be more desirable than that?
The trick is, in order to know what it will take to hit that spot, you have to know exactly where the spot is. Or in other words, you have to know what you really want. Deep down inside, in the core of who you are.
Do you want peace of mind? If you are looking for it in a cookie, a new car or a greater level of material success, you probably won't find it.
Does that mean that you shouldn't strive for or enjoy those things? Not at all. It just means that you shouldn't look to satisfy your deep-rooted craving for peace of mind in the car dealership. They only sell cars.
For peace of mind you have to shop somewhere else.
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I have a family member who claims that "those who think that money does not buy happieness DONT KNOW WERE TO SHOP".
WHat can you do, so people will never learn
just popping in to say hi to everyone, i'm looking forward to having access to my computer again, and hang out with everyone. Meanwhile, utilize this special day of the Head of the month of Elul to stregthen our consious contact with G-d. I heard that starting today he is more accecible than the rest of the year... more on this later.
Rabbi, for Orthodox
persons there is
a loss of spirituality
in not having Wine ever. I understand and am not questioning.
only that as it is intended, the Jew is to have wine for Kiddish on Friday night, in the sense the wine does something for their spirituality when done correctly.
AA member does not have this bec. of actions that they took in the past.
It seems that there should be something missing from the exp. of Shabbos with no wine however.
Suppose one can get non alcho\lics wine or if you were to boil a amount of wine so that the alchohol is evaporated. is this
reccommnened by Jewish AA members?
frum jew,
I really don't see what the big loss is. Why can't you use grape juice? It has the same blessing as wine - borei pri hagofen - and accompishes the same thing halachically. Same thing with the four cups at the Pesach seder. It's not like you're not fulfilling the mitzvah properly by using grape juice. Any competent halachic authority would tell you the same thing.
I can tell you this both as a rabbi AND as someone who used to look forward every year to making havdallah on vodka after Yom Kippur.
Today when I see Orthodox people drink wine or liquor at Kiddush (or Passover), then it turns into a bottle or two for them, my grape juice tastes all that much better. (Coming from a guy who was VERY liberal with the 4 cups of wine)
Yeah this was an example of not going to a meeting for about one week.
One starts to think of wine in the theoretical sense.
I suppose that the AA member should have a fear of booze, to not allow any thoughts of ever having again.
I guess there is that aspect of the fully letting go. As A newcomer, in my 7th week of sobriety, perhaps I still hope to one day drink again in a normal fashion.
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