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A Change Of Heart

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.

...he must undergo a change of heart. To get over drinking will require a transformation of thought and attitude. - Big Book of AA, pg. 143

An audio recording of a class on Big Book and Judaism - A Change of Heart

Recorded on Thursday, January 31, 2008

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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: Jan 27, 2009

change of heart

Wow Rabbi Pinson,
Thank you. I really been having a hard time going to meeting OA. I could not find the connection while people share.
Between the classes I am taking here with one of the Chabad Rabbi's and your great Audios is making me understand how to reach out and get closer to Hashem
try to concentrate on my present needs and avoid worrying about things that are not within my capacity to change.

Posted By Anonymous, atlanta, ga

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