The Broken-Cistern Syndrome Weekly Torah Commentaries

    • Judaism

We live in a culture of addiction. Alcohol and drug addiction rates,
already elevated before the COVID pandemic, continue to rise steeply. And
if you include what we call “process addictions”—like gambling or
compulsive shopping, screen time, or pornography use—nearly everyone is
touched by addiction in one way or another.

We live in a culture of addiction. Alcohol and drug addiction rates,
already elevated before the COVID pandemic, continue to rise steeply. And
if you include what we call “process addictions”—like gambling or
compulsive shopping, screen time, or pornography use—nearly everyone is
touched by addiction in one way or another.