Chofetz Chaim & Blogging

The son of the Chofetz Chaim writes about his father as a young man:

I remember...how he would often go by himself into the fields outside of town to make a soul accounting of all his actions of the day... He had a little notebook in which he wrote his "accounts" and the fences [rules of extra self restraint] which he had made for things in which he had stumbled.

I heard from him a few time, many years later, how he wondered that people having even the smallest store kept a notebook to record their accounts... but as for the accounts of their soul, they made no effort to be aware of their situation [by having a notebook and making a soul account].


(Michtavei HaChofetz Chaim HaChadash - Volume 2, I, Page 7)