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Steps Eight and Nine

By Yisrael Pinson

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Yisrael Pinson
Rabbi Yisrael Pinson is the Director of the Daniel B. Sobel Friendship House in West Bloomfield, MI. Since joining the Friendship House he has helped create a local Jewish Recovery Community where recovering addicts are helped through support, guidance, friendship and community. Rabbi Yisrael facilitates Jewish Recovery meetings, where recovering addicts from all 12-step programs meet and share regularly. He also teaches classes on Judaism & Recovery.

Step Eight - Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

Step Nine - Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

An audio recording of a class on Twelve Steps and Judaism - Steps Eight and Nine

Recorded on Thursday, October 11, 2007

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Rabbi Yisrael Pinson is the Director of the Daniel B. Sobel Friendship House in West Bloomfield, MI. Since joining the Friendship House he has helped create a local Jewish Recovery Community where recovering addicts are helped through support, guidance, friendship and community.

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	Steps Eight and Nine
- Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. - Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. (22:53)
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	Step Ten
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. Listen (28:03)

	Step Eleven
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with G-d, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. Listen (25:02)

	Step Twelve - Part One
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. Listen (11:08)

	Step Twelve - Part Two
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. Listen (20:20)

	Step Twelve - Part Three
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. Listen (19:56)

	Step One
We admitted we were powerless over our addiction - that our lives had become unmanageable. Listen (30:15)

	Step Two
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. Listen (29:08)

	Step Three
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of G-d as we understood Him. Listen (29:40)

	Step Four
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. Listen (33:51)

	Step Five
Admitted to G-d, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. Listen (31:32)

	Steps Six and Seven
- Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. - Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. Listen (22:22)