 When he was a youth, his family relocated to New York City, where he studied in the Kashau yeshiva and then in Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem under Rabbi Moshe Feinstein.At the age of 15, Schick came across the popular Breslov booklet "Meshivat Nefesh" by Rabbi Alter Tepliker, which attracted him to Rebbe Nachman's teachings.He began to spend many hours each day in "hitbodedut" per Rebbe Nachman's instructions, and studied more Torah in accordance with Rebbe Nachman's system of learning.