A Purposeless Life Without Torah

why waste time why waste time because what happens when you waste time what happens when your mind is empty of tah aside from what the rambam says that immorality comes to people that have a mind that's empty of tah but if a person lives a life without having tah in their life all of the mundane talk about politics about business about sport about fashion about everything else in the world you literally can sum up in a matter of maybe a couple of conversations there no more to talk about without getting new information and a couple of stories will give you an understanding the hostages that were taken hostage by the monsters of Kamas on October 7th reported them s saying that one of the most difficult things that they experienced while being hostages was the boredom because they weren't allowed to do anything and they just wanted the time to pass so what do they do they literally when they would get a bowl of of rice finally to finally eat they would to pass the time they would eat one grain of rice at a time one grain of rice at a time just to pass the time I mean some of these poor people were there for 100 150 days and they didn't have any Torah knowledge they didn't have even a verse of that you could recite in your mind and not only increase your marriage but you could delve into it and think of many other things from it didn't have what that means how does the transmit from all the way to us gave it to Yeshua Yeshua gave it to theim gave it to the gave it to they didn't have anything they have no knowledge of Tora and therefore whatever mundan topics they studied whether it be in school or in society or the news and everything that all ran out within a matter of a day or two and literally for the vast majority of time they had nothing to talk about this is also most apparent with people age as the itself says that when age they get older they get sharper their bodies may give out but their minds become sharper that studied to's whole life is much much more sharp when he's 80 years old than when he was 20 on the other hand people that don't learn tah as they age they become more dull because their mind has not been utilized to the best ability throughout its life and it becomes worse and worse in fact the worst thing that old people suffer is boredom sh Shalom one of the most profound and speakers that we had in the most recent generation said that one time when he came to the BET mid he told him I just learned something while making SCH what the make what do he see what do he do so as I'm walking towards the BET mid I see that there is a old couple maybe mid 70s 80 years old arguing at the bus stop 38 37 38 37 38 you don't know what you're talking about you're always uh pessimistic you don't know how to count you're forgetful 37 you always exaggerate you don't know what you're talking about you always see things 37 38 37 38 back and forth immediately said what's going on here I went over there and I say can can I help you with something oh Rabbi great that you're here maybe you can help us with this big problem that we have okay what's the problem says Rabbi we're here we don't have much to do so we come we sit here and we count how many buses pass now my dear husband over here he counted 37 and my dear wife over here the husband says she counted 38 but of course she counted 38 because she always exaggerates he only counted 37 because he's pessimistic and forgetful he doesn't remember even anything of what he ate yesterday so we want you Rabbi to tell us who's right 37 or 38 swam V in his wisdom of Tor says to them you're both right huh how can we both be right listen you counted 37 he counted 38 that's because there's a double bus that's a bus that's connected to another bus you counted it as one and she counted it as two oh wow perfect amazing yes you're absolutely right May Hashem create more likee you wow what thank you so much yeah thank you thank you so Shon says to us yes on one hand it's great we make schom bite but on other end look at what happens to a person if he does not learn Torah in his later years he's not going to have anything else to talk about other than counting buses this is why we say an emphasize every single week doing chuva and learning Torah is not a gift you're giving anybody but yourself because all of the other information you're consuming all of the other things that you're doing every single one of them would lose its value shortly after you attained it but the Torah the Tor that you attained the toah that you acquire only increases value over time and that that's why on another end when Rim was young and he went to visit his uncle his dear uncle that have met several times a sadik raos and he went to visit him for Shabbat and he saw that after they finished praying for Shabbat there was one old man that stayed at the synagogue got a and sat down and ra told young R FR he told me see that man he's not going to go home until he completes seven or eight the of the because even though itself says that you shouldn't delay doing K after completing prayer on on Friday said here he made an agreement with his wife since he's older and she's older there's no kids or grandkids at their house there's no reason to hurry up having the dinner at a specific time and since he learned seven of every single day to complete the sh once a year and doing it in the in the morning or the afternoon on Friday is very difficult because it needs to help to prepare the house so he does it before before he comes home so sometimes they'll have the kidou at 900 p.m. sometimes at 10 p.m. sometimes at 9:30 depends on how difficult those s seven or eight the that he does on that Friday night because he's not just learning on Friday night he's learning the whole week but he has to complete his learning that Friday night we see from here this a person that not only values his time is very particular about how he uses it but also as a person that has not lost his Zeal his purpose and his excitement for life because he still has tah he still has tah he doesn't have to count buses he doesn't have to count grains of of rice he's continuing to develop his mind in his old age and this is why when a person learns tah and dedicates themselves to it they'll know that the value is priceless but then they'll also start to understand why the value of wasting your time on baseless conversations is also Priceless but on a negative end so let's try to save our words only only for purposeful things make sure to encourage others like your kids or other people that want to say that we give them the time of day we give them the opportunity and not discourage them know when to say I don't know know when to say I have to go and most importantly know how to utilize our time thank you very much for learning with me May hasem bless each and every single one of you to have success in your learning Torah and to utilize your time in this world to maximize all the good that you do anyone 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