Sunday, January 17, 2010

Hashem Loves Me...

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  1. BJanuary 18, 2010 at 12:06 AM

    Chaya Sara, thank you so much for posting this video! It's beautiful! The music, soft words, gorgeous pictures of Hashem's glory enhanced the message of this video and made me feel really happy and close to Hashem!

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  2. DevorahJanuary 18, 2010 at 9:44 AM

    Chaya Sara, this video is really something special. The music and warm words just fill your heart with love for Hashem! And it's so true, when you are depressed or upset, the yetzer hara has you and can get you to do anything, because then you feel worthless. By reminding yourself that Hashem loves you, you can fight back!

    Thanks so much for posting this!

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  3. liat knopfJanuary 18, 2010 at 8:24 PM

    Chaya Sara!
    i think that this is just sssssooooooo inspiring thankyou 4 telling me about this and i love this clip! i think that everytime i spoke to you or heard your speeches in camp it was just about this-only in different words! wow! its like your the one who did it-or quoted what the clip was saying all the time!

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  4. AnonymousJanuary 18, 2010 at 9:37 PM

    just what i needed- thanks a million!

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  5. AnonymousJanuary 19, 2010 at 1:37 AM

    ok so i hear that when i'm stressed out or upset the yezter hara is behind it but sometimes i'm really stressed out or upset for a reason, sometimes it's even a good reason. and even if i say that i know hashem loves me and even if i believe it it's not going to unstress me or make me not upset if the reason i'm upset about is still something for me to be upset about. am i being clear? i'm not really sure but i think the point what i'm trying to say is that even if i really know in my heart and beleive that hashem loves me i don't understnd how it can make me feel better and be able to cope better with the issue at hand. WTVR thanks for letting me voice my opinion. if you think it will have a negative affect on other readers then please delete this comment. Thank You!
    ps. i really love ur blog u really gave me a new perspective on life.

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  6. AnonymousJanuary 19, 2010 at 1:43 AM

    chaya sora, ive got a question on this beautiful video-doesnt the yetzer hora come at times when you are happy??? usually when one is sad they are just stuck in their misery (so that itself is the yetzer hora) but when all is good and that is when the TAVOS come, and the yetzer hora is the strongest no??? and at that point knowing hashem loves me, doesnt help me withstand the yetzer hora!
    i would appreciate it if you would respond
    thanks

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  7. Mystery WomanJanuary 19, 2010 at 9:45 AM

    Thank you for that inspiring video!

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  8. AnonymousJanuary 19, 2010 at 4:19 PM

    Chaya sara u knw me waayyy too well u could try to guess hiu this is but I'm absolutely in love with this video especially cuz me and nature make a rly good pair thanx for sharing also I x knw if this is answering ur question but I think its trying to say that when we r upset and down and stressed those r feelings of giving in to the yetzer hara an some way shape or form and u allowed the yetzer hara to win the battle so now he has become strong however if ur happy and confident and always knw that Hashem Love s u like His child its a lot easier to feel accomplished and its true that yetzer comes to ppl wen their strong however the yetzer like to pik an easy battle so he resides in the weak person like a monster wen someone is filled with REAL happiness there's no room for the yetzer hara He only comes and takes over wen u allow him to wen ur happy and confident and feel good about urself ur too strong to let him in happiness in essence is the feelin of going in the right direction and if ur strong to ur goals he cant stop u hope that helped if it even made any sense

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  9. DevorahJanuary 19, 2010 at 4:29 PM

    Just wanted to mention one thing to all of you:
    The yetzer hara is very smart! So he has many tactics and ways to trap a person! This clip is just one of the ways that he operates. When a person is depressed and upset, he will trap them and get them to do anything.

    That doesn't mean that when a person is happy, he wont find a way to get you to sin. He will! Cuz that's his purpose. His whole goal is to get you to fall! So of course he will find other ways to catch you.

    This video is there to tell you that when you feel upset, down or depressed, don't let the yetzer hara catch you and cause you to sin! Remind yourself that Hashem loves you. And if you tell yourself that, you will be able to catch yourself before you fall.

    Cuz if Hashem loves me, it will remind me to think about the good things He gave me and I will only want to do good things! I would not want to upset my loving Father!!

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  10. chaya saraJanuary 20, 2010 at 2:00 AM

    guys thank you soo much for all your comments!! all the questions are sooo good, pls keep them coming!! as you write them you sometimes gain some more clarity!!
    THE GOAL OF THIS SHORT VIDEO IS TO HELP US THINK POSITIVELY, WHEN YOU DO THAT YOU ARE OPENING UP YOUR ABILITY TO GAIN BRACHA FROM HASHEM!! HOW DOES SAYING HASHEM LOVES ME HELP ME OUT IN A TIME OF CRAZINESS??? GREAT QUESTION!!
    (SO IM GIVING YOU MY OWN IDEA I DONT KNOW IF ITS FROM ANY GREAT SOURCE!! ILL TRY!!)THINK ABOUT HOW YOU ARE ONE PERSON IN THIS WORLD AND HASHEM LOVES YOU MORE THAN YOU CAN EVER BEGIN TO IMAGINE. HE CARES FOR YOU MORE THAN ANYONE IN THE WORLD IT JUST MAKES YOU FEEL SOOOO HAPPY INSIDE!! DURING THIS TIME THE YETZER HARA CANT GET IN TO YOU!! SO IF YOU THINK A LITTLE BIT DEEPER THAN JUST HASHEM LOVES ME IT WILL HELP YOU SEE THE WORLD WITH NEW EYES!!(WITHOUT ANY EYE SURGERY) SEEING ALL THE GOOD THAT HASHEM GIVES US MAKES US FEEL SO APPRICIATIVE TO HIM! BY FOCUSING IN THE GOOD YOU JUST BECOME A HAPPIER PERSON!!
    TRUST ME I KNOW!! FROM LIFE EXPERIENCE!! SO PLS LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK OF THIS ANSWER!!
    (BY THE WAY LAZER BRODY IS RLLY COOL YOU CLD GOOGLE HIM AND HEAR MORE AND SEE MORE!!!)

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  11. TamarJanuary 20, 2010 at 5:09 PM

    wow that's amazing. thank you. it's very true.

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  12. TamarJanuary 20, 2010 at 11:37 PM

    guys, check out Rabbi Brody's website- it's amazing- http://lazerbrody.typepad.com/

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  13. AnonymousJanuary 21, 2010 at 12:33 AM

    Chaya Sara, thanks for responding to my question about feeling happy and hashem's love when things are bad.... but isn't it a little easier said then done. like, ok hashem you just sent X,Y,Z.... my way but i still LOVE YOU!!! how do you do that??!?!?!?

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  14. chaya saraJanuary 21, 2010 at 1:28 AM

    guys i think we have the coolest ppl here!! evryone is here just to grow and learn. welcome to all the new comers:) we love having all your comments!! wow!! i am soo touched that you are taking so much from this web site! i know hashem is loving what we are doing!!
    so everything is easier said than done-however we have to start with baby steps and start with small things in your every day life and see how hashem loves you! notice one good thing hashem did for you!!realize that he is really taking an interest in you and everyhting you doooo!!! this will lead you to soo much inner happiness when you look out to see how hashem is the one who is pulling all the strings from behind the scenes!!

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  15. liat knopfJanuary 22, 2010 at 2:15 PM

    ppl. always ask me how im so happy but im not i always just "act" happy i started this when i used to always be sad and i didnt like when ppl. would say what happend infront of everyone or when i DID tell s/o so that she could help me by just saying "oh thats so sad", or "omg!" and look at me in such a sorry kind of face but not hep me and just sit there i realized that n/o can help me w/ a/t so whats the point of talking-i mean unless i think that they could or just by listening would make me feel better i didnt tell anyone i just realized in 5th grade that hashem would be the only one able to help me so i started to daven for hours to hashem and even better i got permission from my school that when im up to shmona esrai i can go out of class and daven in a quarner, in the hole for how ever long i neaded-(i just had to of course make up the work!)
    being that i didnt like it when ppl. would either be more sensible towards me, or ask me what happened all the time in front of e/o i would when angree-take a deep breaths and count to a hundred slowly so that by the end i wouldnt have to react any more. and when sad, i would take a moment to think of s/t recently that was funny, a good memory, or even s/t to look fwd to and smile-then after a while i didnt have to do any of these methods any more b/e my smiling became more automatic and i became a happier person of course and as 4 angree i learned how to controll it much more!
    the only thing is i never knew when my yatzer hara, yetzer tov or hashem talk to me. how do you know? like when i realy am happy and i rush to do a mitzvah i dont hear anyone in me saying"no lets not do it, dont get up, im so confortuable" or anything of the sort. i never hear any voices... so Chay Sara do understand what i mean? i dont think that my yetzer hara is bigger b/e then when i want to do a mitzvah- y dont i hear a/t?

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  16. AnonymousJanuary 24, 2010 at 8:35 PM

    hey chaya sara its me again...
    so you say to take small baby steps, and realize its Hashem who is behind e/t and he's pulling all the strings! ok, i hear that i am the first one to sit in awe at a sunset, and i'll be the one to lay immobile for hours gazing at the stars, i realize hashem made a fascinating world... it is mind boggling! but then he sends you a big HIT, and your emunah and awe just goes DROP!

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  17. AnonymousJanuary 26, 2010 at 7:47 PM

    anonmous are u saying that when life goes hard-u just dont feel like you have as much emunah? well i must say that when ever things are wrong in life or more likly not going the right way-i just know that its a test even thogh my tefilote arent answerd right now, yes i dont have as much but i still believe in him........and btw mind u but they hadnt been answerd since the school has started! these weird questions always come to my mind like maby its either just a test or im sayn loshon hara w/o realizing cuz mabe thats why im not answerd-who knows. but what i do know is that i became very strong on shmirat halashon-so strong that i dont even want to put the "purity of speech" down 4 1 sigle seconed and i try learning it at least 3x a day!
    by my self
    i opend a hotline at 9and do it w/ some girls there
    and of course STERNBERGS HOTLINE!(thats besides that i have been carring it w/ me all day that the whole cover has fallen apart....)some of u most prob. know who i am already...
    anyways to get back to the point i dont daven 4 my self but 4 others and mashiach, life is so hard i wonder when this test will be done already. Do we always have tests in our lives?
    also i dont know how it happens to be so but my princeple-some how knows whats going on in my life and thats just like realy scary!
    im sure you know her chaya sara b/e she even have mentioned your name to me! Mrs. Gringras-know who im talkn about?
    shes started tryn to talk to me b/e im not eatn well, loosn tonz of wait, and thats b/e i don have any apitite when it comes to eatn-espeshialy when im in a rely bad mood:(

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  18. B'Siyata D'ShmayaFebruary 1, 2010 at 12:44 PM

    Liat, the yetzer hara knows that if he would straight try convincing you to do something wrong, or stop you from doing something right, you would recognize right away that it was the yetzer hara and you would tell him to go away. Our yetzer hara is always bigger and smarter than us! Since he knows that wouldn't work with you, he challenges you in ways where it's hard to even recognize that it's him convincing you.
    Every person's yetzer hara is customized for them!
    Our challenge is to recognize what the right thing to do is-what would Hashem what & to do it!

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  19. AnonymousFebruary 1, 2010 at 3:45 PM

    when i feel sad i do realize that its the yetzer hara-but i still cant get rid of him! i tryd even smiling witch i still do and sayn that hashem loves me but its still always w/ me how do i get rid of him?ppl i guess r now realizing that im not as happy as "i usualy am" and its starting all over again-by ppl asking me if e/t is ok-I of course smile and say that e/t is fine but then once i turn around some how that frown is pasted back on my face!:( it feels like the Y"H is like pulling me down- to be sad and its so much harder to smile now.Chaya Sara how do u do it? how does a/o do it?

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  20. B'Siyata D'ShmayaFebruary 2, 2010 at 8:10 PM

    Honestly, I don't really know how to respond... It is so difficult (yet doable with Siyata D'Shmaya) to fight off feeling unhappy...
    I searched "happiness" on aish.com and came across many articles that may have some very good insights for you.
    Read an article or 2 and when you find something that speaks to you and seems practical, do some sort of action to implement what you've read about. Hashem should help you that you will once again "be yourself," smile to others sincerely and feel really great!
    Much hatzlacha! Looking forward to hearing your stories of success!

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  21. liat knopfFebruary 7, 2010 at 2:17 PM

    im still lookn but i have another question-how do we get rid of our yetzer hara? when we do realize that its him i mean like lets say even by davening-espeshialy when its yom kippor, or some other time when we realy are davening w/ such kavana and then all of a sudden u realize that ur mind is somewhere els-i up until now think the Mashiach is coming now and i dont want2 be found this way-but now i c it coming more often when times i am lets say realy in to s/t like learning shmirat halashon and im falling a sleep when it even isnt that late-i startwed sayn hashem loves me or hashem please make my yetzer hara go away-but then a few min. later it just happens again! (so my question is, how do we make the Y"H go away?)

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  22. DevorahFebruary 7, 2010 at 7:44 PM

    Liat, it's a constant struggle. We can't just get rid of our yetzer hara in one day! Otherwise, it wouldn't be a challenge. If I were to tell you that if you do xyz you will never have trouble concentrating on your davening and you will never get distracted, then it wouldn't be a test for you anymore!! The point is that you have to keep on coming up with new ideas to fight your yetzer hara, because as soon as you think of one thing, He'll come up with something else to make it not work! It's something that you need to work on and it has to be on a constant basis!!

    Reading books on Tefillah or learning the meaning of the words should help and there are ways to get rid of distracting thoughts. Talk to your thoughts all tell them to go away - and come back after you are done davening! Try it! It really works!!

    And you'll have to keep on trying to come up with new ideas for each thing you are working on. Fighting the yetzer hara is a lifelong battle but if you take little baby steps you will be able to do it! Instead of saying, from now on I will never look out of my siddur and I'll always keep my eyes on the english translation of the words, say, I will try to concentrate on the first paragraph or the first line because starting at the beginning is always a great way to continue on. Cuz then you feel like, woah! I did the first part, why stop now and continue as far as you can go! And when you get distracted, keep trying to refocus! It's hard but you need to keep trying and keep at it and keep fighting the yetzer hara!!

    And keep asking questions, I hope we will be able to continue answering all of them!!

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  23. TamarFebruary 7, 2010 at 8:02 PM

    you know what's a really good way to not give into the Y"H- if you tell yourself every time you stand strong, every moment, you rack up another zechus for yourself or for a certain cause, it's a really good motivator. if you need zechusim for something, there is no way you're going to give in and give up lol

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  24. B'Siyata D'ShmayaFebruary 7, 2010 at 11:49 PM

    In response on fightin our yetzer hara - I dont remember where I heard this, cud be at school... Using the tactics that the YH tries on us, is a good way to get back at him. One example I remember hearing was that our YH convinces us to delay doing something good and then, we often don't get around to doing it or lose the opportunity, altogether. We can try that on our YH as well. Like for example, the YH is trying to convince us to say a good piece of Lashon hara you heard today and you really want to tell it, push off saying the Lashon hara, saying that you will do the aveira later, but once later in the day comes, you don't want to speak the lashon hara anymore. (same thing when people have machsom lfis, even once their hour is over, feel silly to say the Lashon hara already..)
    Let me know if any of you can think of any other ways we can use the yetzer hara's own strategies against him!

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