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11/10/03

I am happy to report that by the grace of God I am not strugling with pornography on the internet these days, that was not always the case. It has been a MAJOR problem for me, and many people I know. In my own experiance I did not "get sober" through the reportyoureyes program, rather I have been working in therapy, taking medication and continualy working a 12Step program, I believe that without such a a help as ReportYourEyes many people will remain too "high" to be able to take the necesary steps. How is that for "chizuk"?

 

Sam K.

 

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BS”D

 

Comments and Notes and Blessings from  …….

 

 

07/15/03

הצלחה בעבודתכם הקודש
Rabbi H. M.
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07/18/03

B"H

It is very important to call a Asifas Rabunim of all Rabunim to discuss
the Grave Problem of internet. Also should the Rabunim sign a Kol Koira
that there is a isus yichud on internet unless you have 3 shomrim.
Tizku Lemitzvos
S G

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08/05/03

Your doing a great thing. We need this desperately. It should become common place to have your system for everybody.

M K
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08/08/03

I would like to express my thanks to the founders of that great idea. Though I did not start using it, but I’ll most likely be a member of this soon.

But at the same time I’d like to recommend that you have a free trial period just like most of the memberships offered on the web.

 

Keep up with your good work.

A Potential member

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08/13/2003

The following is adapted from an email I just sent to a friend of mine:

 

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I have had Internet access for most of the past several years and during the overwhelming majority of that period (well over 99%), I have not gone to lewd sites. However, there have been a few brief interludes when, in moments of weakness, I let myself fall into this quicksand and each and every time it has been severely detrimental for me, having repercussions that continue long afterward, and in fact, forever.

 

Just now, over the past two days, I fell back into this trap, after almost a year since the last time I did. Although I have not gone back since last night, I cannot trust myself because all it takes is one moment of weakness for me to cause myself further irreparable harm and suffering in mere seconds.

 

I look back with bitter irony at how when I first got the Internet, I was so sure I'd never go to such sites and even dismissed friends of mine who warned me of the danger.

 

I am asking you to help in the following ways:

 

1. Be sure to periodically check-in with me to inquire about this. Just knowing that I will have to answer to you should act as a deterrent.

 

2. Insist upon checking my computer or my having someone else do so, to track where I have been online.

I have heard numerous times that merely deleting "internet files" and clearing history in IE does not in fact erase all of this from the hard-drive and that anyone who knows how can view these things.

 

My friend replied by telling me about a program called "Report Your Eyes" which sounded excellent and I wanted to share it here.

 

www.reportyoureyes.com (be sure to include the www)

 

And they have info. on it from a Torah perspective, including a drosha by the Viener Ruv, shlita and some other material in Yiddish:

 

http://www.reportyoureyes.com/drushos.html

 

I will b'li neder be giving my modem to someone to hold for me unless and until I set this or something similar up.

 

  NOTES:

 

[1] This posuk is brought in Shulchan Aruch: Even HaEzer, 21: 3, where it says:

 

[loose translation]

 

"It is permitted for a man to look at an unmarried woman to determine if he finds her beautiful enough to marry her, whether she is a virgin or not, and not only that [that it is permitted] but it is indeed proper to do so. However, he may not look at her in a lewd manner, and concerning this it is stated "Bris karati b'eini umah esbonein al besulah" (Iyov 31:1).

 

Follow-ups concerning this should be directed to an appropriate forum, such as "Finding Your Bashert".