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Step Ten

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 Ten - Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

An audio recording of a class on Twelve Steps and Judaism - Step Ten

Recorded on Thursday, October 18, 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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Posted: July 25, 2009

I have not listened to the video, but to answer your question, Rachel, let's say X, the food addict, doesn't get to chocolate cake because of his addiction, so he quickly eats a bunch of steak; X will not be hungry after that but his mental craving for sweets won't have subsided. So X not getting his chocolate cake is like us not getting our 'fix'. And if the issue is, that, we die if we don't get our fix, is actually rare in regards to direct correlation(i.e. excluding outlandish acts in an attempt to achieve satisfaction). Alcohol withdrawal is unique in that it be directly fatal. When a death occurs due to withdrawals of another type of drug, it is usually because there were other underlying health problems the user had, unbeknownst or not. And, really, how many habitual drugs users are healthy? I would say less so than non addicts, or not active addicts.

Posted By tim mayer, Orlando, FL

Posted: June 24, 2009

step 10

interesting commentary, but because you use the example of food, I can't see how it relates to real addiction. If you don't eat the chocolate cake, you might feel hungry. If you don't take that drink, hit, short, whatever, you might go into convulsions and die. At the very least, you'll go into withdrawal. The unforunate analogy undermined some excellent points you made. But how could an addict relate to it?

Posted By Rachel, Stamford, CT

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