Rabbi Zecharia Wallerstein

About Rabbi Zecharia Wallerstein

Rabbi Zecharia Wallerstein is a rabbi and mechanech on Lehallel — the filtered YouTube platform. 234+ of his recordings can be watched here, with no ads and no comments.

Rabbi Zecharia Wallerstein zt"l taught through stories, and his channel keeps them sorted by the lesson each one carries. There are stories of chessed - "Every Second Counts", "To Follow in Hashem's Ways", "Use What Hashem Gave You", "What Goes Around, Comes Around"; of emunah and bitachon - "A Purpose for the Challenge"; of mesirus nefesh - "Stuck on the Mountain", "The True Test of Life", "To See Hashem's Reflection"; of teshuvah - "Don't Wait Till It's Too Late", "Tip the Scale"; of hakaras hatov - "A Reason to Smile", "The Ultimate Appreciation"; of tzaddikim - "To Feel Their Pain"; and of Divine providence - "To Change the Decree", "The Gift of Life", "The Power to Change", and "The Broken Leg That Saved My Life", the story that everything is for the best.

Many of his stories and talks are about building a home: "The Greatest Shidduch Advice", "Desperate for a Shidduch", "Do You Love Your Wife?", developing a relationship with your family and with Hashem, "Cupcakes and String Beans: Don't Take It Personally", "Attention All Teenage Girls!", and, in the words of Rabbi Shenhav Bendel, "The Rebbe Who Changed My Life" - a story of chinuch told about Rabbi Wallerstein himself.

His talks reach for the questions of life in plain words: "When You Help Others You Are Really Helping Yourself", "Leave Your Past", "The Justification Trap", "Keeping It Real", "Are You a Player or a Fan?", "Appreciate Your Blessings", "Coming Into and Leaving This World with Nothing", "Why Do You Want Life?", "Don't Ask a Machine if God Exists", introspection and what Hashem expects of us, strong mussar from the World to Come, and Torah perspectives on addiction.

For the year there are the lessons of chametz and matzah, "Pesach: True Freedom" for CHAZAQ's Torah Talks, and the parsha - Vayeira, and the birth of a nation - and an interview with him in Los Angeles on Hidabroot. Each shiur opens on its own page, with no ads and no comments around it. His stories are gathered below by the lesson each one carries, so a listener looking for chessed, for emunah, for teshuvah or for a shidduch can open that room and hear one story after another. A listener meeting him for the first time can begin with "The Broken Leg That Saved My Life" or with "The Greatest Shidduch Advice", and go on from there to the room that speaks to him.

You can search inside the shiurim by what was said, play the whole catalog back to back, or follow Rabbi Zecharia Wallerstein to be told when something new comes in.