Sometimes my Bubie tells us stories that are connected with the holidays that we are celebrating. Our parents do not let us go to our Bubie’s and Zada’s house to celebrate holidays but we often get a story that makes it seem that maybe our Bubie and Zada are with us. My father likes to buy my brother a new bekeshe, which is a long black coat that Chasidim wear, for Passover. I don’t know if my brother likes to wear the bekeshe because it is usually only worn by Rebbe’s sons and he isn’t a Rebbe’s son. So my Bubie told him this story to make him feel that the bekeshe he was wearing was something special and magical just for him.
Fradella

​It is hard to write a story when you are sad. The Rabbis tell us that we should always be B’Simcha, happy, but sometimes there are things that make you sad and you have to work through it to try to come out of the tunnel of darkness into the light. My Bubie told me that there was once a king who told his jeweler that he wanted him to make him a ring that had a saying on it that when he felt sad it would make him happy and when he felt happy he would be grateful for his happiness because he would know that it would not last forever. The wise jeweler inscribed on the ring the following words- THIS TOO SHALL PASS. This is a story about a person who was feeling sad and then she was able to begin to feel happy, but it took work and it took time.
Fradella

My Bubie believes that most people in the world try to do good things but, there are also bad people and we need try to fight them and hope that they are punished for the pain that they cause others. The next story is about someone who lost something precious to someone who was bad. My Bubie says we should try to think positive, even about a bad situation. Sometimes I have trouble doing that. She says, “Remember, sometimes you may lose something very precious but you must always have hope that it will be found again someday. You may feel sad, but don’t be very, very sad. When there is hope, there is the possibility to be happy too”.
 Fradella