Moral of the Stories 

Always listening for Hashem’s messages, seeking out the positive within the challenges, and living with an unrelenting bitachon that all is for the best have been the refrain of all Rabbi Fishel Schachter’s lectures, articles, and even his kids’ tapes for years. It’s all about the everyday stories that frame our lives – and if you can’t find them, it means you weren’t looking hard enough

Chein is one of those words that just doesn’t translate. It’s been called beauty or charm or comeliness, but it’s so much more than that and we all know it.

But if we can’t say it, we still sense it: Chein is that undefined something that strikes a chord nearly forgotten. It’s a rush of defiance to reality, transcending time, disregarding maturation. Suddenly, you’re that little boy again, ensuring the candy-man that, yes, you’ll make a shehakol; you’re that little girl in a frilly dress, suppressing the crunch of a Bissli once the thrill of the first few tekios has begun to ebb.

Chein is a spark of purity that we had as children and spend a lifetime longing to recapture.

While the industry of inspirational speakers in the Jewish community has flourished in the last few decades and the plethora of shiurim span the gamut of Torah, few carry the characteristic of being able to hold captive an audience of both children and adults, equally entertained by the humor, riveted by the depth, inspired by the message.