How can you keep smiling when tragedy strikes… twice? In this episode, Yisroel Besser talks with Yossi Hecht; media personality, author, musician, cancer survivor and husband about his incredibly inspiring life story. They discuss the ways that Yossi was able to harness and exude an incredible simchas hachayim despite losing his ability to walk and the devastating loss of his mother shortly thereafter. How was Hashem Yossi’s shadchan? Who usually gets pesicha d’neila of Yom Kippur in Rabbi Bender’s Shul? And how do you pronounce Dovi Safier’s name?

When your work puts you inside some of the most sensitive situations in our community, how can you keep from burning out? Have shadchanus fees gone up, and should they? Do all bachurim vape? And can shadchanim drink on Purim?

What is the challenge of our generation?

What do you do when Hashem says no?

How can you make innovations in a yeshivah when the goal is to continue a long mesorah? Did Lakewood have a thriving Jewish nightlife before the yeshivah settled there?

How can the unfathomable pain of losing a child be channeled into something holy?

Does overexposure exist in today’s media-frantic world?