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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. |
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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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Latest Comments:
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.
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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?
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Step Ten
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Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly
admitted it. (28:03) | |
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| We admitted we were powerless over our addiction - that our lives
had become unmanageable.
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| Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could
restore us to sanity.
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| Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care
of G-d as we understood Him.
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| Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
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| Admitted to G-d, to ourselves, and to another human being the
exact nature of our wrongs.
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| - Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
- Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
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| - 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.
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