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Vayimaen - Meriting the Impossible | Rabbi Fischel Schachter

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Author: Vayimaen
Categories: Religion Education
Tags: religion, education
Views: 2 · Last viewed: 2026-10-16 08:09 UTC

Short Summary

Main recommendation: When faced with an impossible situation, do not shut it out. Choose to let it in and engage with it, because Hashem does impossible things for those who do. The video shows this through two stories: a rabbi who learned with a difficult child on Shabbos afternoon, and a man who supported a thief in his poverty and was then rewarded in the World to Come.

Key Points

  • The Tchebiner Rav, a great Gadol of his time, agreed to learn Perek HaKones with a boy who had asked for a rabbi to review his material after the Rebbe told him to go to the town's rabbi.
  • The Tchebiner Rav said he had learned Perek HaKones as many times as there are hairs in his beard, but he gained new insights (chiddushim) only when he welcomed the boy in.
  • Turning away a difficult moment ("Get out!") blocks new understanding, while welcoming it ("Come in") opens doors to insights you never had before.
  • The same principle applies to the Yetzer Hara: welcoming it in rather than shutting it out can, counterintuitively, yield new merit, per the speaker's analogy.
  • In the second story, a man who supported a thief for years was judged in Shomayim as having his own sins charged to the thief, and he was sent to Gan Eden.

Details Worth Noting

  • Concrete instructions: When a situation feels impossible and you want to refuse it, consciously choose to open up to it instead of rejecting it, and engage with it fully, as the Tchebiner Rav did by sitting down to learn with a child on Shabbos afternoon.
  • Concrete instructions: Apply the same approach to difficult challenges and to temptations you are tempted to shut out, giving them a structured response rather than automatic refusal.
  • The Tchebiner Rav's example involved Perek HaKones, a Gemara topic, which he learned with a boy the Rebbe had described as intellectually challenging and difficult to work with.
  • In the second story, the man who supported the thief in his old age did so because he felt he could not let someone die of hunger, despite the thief's bad conduct.
  • The video frames the second story's outcome as the supporter being told that the thief had 'stolen' his sins and taken them upon himself, so the supporter went straight to Gan Eden despite his own aveiros.

Bottom Line

Difficult or seemingly impossible situations can become sources of growth and reward when you engage with them instead of pushing them away.