Journey to Teveria 2026: Rebbi Akiva and the Value of Time

Good morning everyone. >> So many people have asked where are we going now? And that's a question we always have to ask in life and where are you going? That doesn't necessarily mean that I'm going to give you an answer. You want an answer. The mission only gives you the question. So it's a very of a thing that everyone's asking where are we going? So, I'm going to let you sit on that question since it's such an important question in life to know in general where are you going? But maybe I'll give you a few hints and a few clues. There was once a great rabbi who was giving a shir. This rabbi's name was Rabbi Akiba [music] and his tamidim were falling asleep. His were falling asleep and you know I always think the more things change the more they stay the same. That's the age-old problem. The rabbi gets up to speak and the tamid fall asleep. So Rabika wanted to wake them up. So he said, why was Esther to rule over 127 in the merit of her righteous ancestrous Sahu who lived 127 righteous years? Wow, that's so exciting. That's so interesting. Everyone jumped up. I don't know about you. But if I was tired and the Rebi began to shear, why was Esther I mean is that really so interesting? What is so interesting about that? How how in the world did that wake up the this of the 127 and 127? That was a best arsenal. So says like this says let's make one simple calculation. You could come through. It's good for business. uh let's make one simple calculation. If in the merit of 127 righteous years uh Esther was to rule over 127 that means every year merited Esther a country. That means probably in the merit of every month she was to a province which means in the merit of every day she was to a state which means in the merit of every hour she was to a city which means in the merit of every minute she was to a whole neighborhood and the merit of every second to a whole community. Look what you could do in one moment. Look how valuable one moment is dearim. If you fall asleep now and you lose out even one moment of learning, you could lose out on eternal good. Rabbi Aaka was alerting them to yakir hazman, the value of time, how precious every moment of life is. That's how Rabi woke them up. He didn't wake them up with humor. He didn't wake them up with something interesting. He gave them pointed muser. Take advantage of every single moment. We can ask a question. Why is it Rabbi AKA who teaches his students and Clal Israel the value of time? Why specifically Rabbi Aaka? And the answer is this is one of Rabika's great keys for success because the banyada teaches that the rash is so the word aka is a raba's name stands for you could acquire in one moment. So you'll ask that's only if you spell a with an al. But what if you spell a with a hey says you could acquire your in one moment. Now as you know there is a famous how you spell. There was once a man by the name of Rabitk Mina Rabit the Arzarua and the reason he named his safer arzarua is because he was writing a safer onet and how you spell various names in documents of divorce and he came to the name and he didn't know do you spell it al or hey and he had a dream and in his dream they showed him the puko And he was wondering why did he dream and then he realized it's rebi Akiva with a hey. So he therefore pas and you spell aka with a hey. However we don't pask in that way. We ask can you spell with a al if some say brings that originally his name was spelled with a hey when his soul left then the al if of was appendage to his name and now we spell his name with an al but in any event the name of stands for kina or a how do you think propelled himself catapulted himself to such greatness he start he got had a late start. He started off at 40. How did he make up for lost time? The answer is he never lost the moment. Like the writes in memorize this says if you don't waste time, there's time for everything. took advantage of every moment of life and therefore he's the one who teaches the world the value of time that's how he woke up his talidim and this is the great legacy of the great tana revi now somebody wanted to know which bus is better where which bus gets more devra the answer is the bus that you're on now just continuing right along On that theme, talking a little bit more about Rabbi Aaka, it's interesting. We know we went last night to Taria to Rabi Mayor and Ra's famous. Where did Rome get that from? You know if you look in who said if you look innan now is not necessarily related to wler just pointing that out. Okay, it's the Tana but in the Tana who says is Rabbi Mayor the Mafarim say Ramor was a student of Rabi Akiva by the way all of Shab >> all of Shab all of boils down to you know it's interesting if you look in the of the he says aula formada is learning Mishnay and the reason is you know I schoolifer because when you learn Gumra sometimes you'll have a minute here or a minute there you'll say how much garum could I learn but if you learn Mishna then you realize you know what even if I have one minute I could learn a Mishna I could learn two Mishnayas Mishnayas are a school formada all of Mishna comes from Rabbi Aaka now Rabbi was Rome's rebi and Rabi had five primary tamidim. Who knows who his tamidim were? Digar says he taught raorisi rahuda shim rail lazar. These were the five tamidim of rabaka. And rabaka's great value and teaching was that we're always the beloved children of Hashem. That's why do you remember the famous conversation between Rabi Akiva and Toris Rufus? The tornisufa says to Rabbi Aaka, hey Rabbi Aka, does God love the poor? Rabi says, "Yeah, Hashem loves the poor." So Toris says, "So why doesn't he feed them?" So says, "It's so that we should get." So Toris Rufus says, "No, you're going to get if you give." What says, "Why would you get ganim if you give sudaka?" So Toris Rufus says, "The king decreed that this person shouldn't have money." Imagine if the king locks someone up in jail and someone sneaks in and feeds the person. They should be liable to the death penalty. Rabika said bad analogy. So Tis Rufa says well what's the analogy says the analogy is what if the king locked up his son and someone snuck him snuck in and fed the son the king would reward the person. We're banakim and rua says no you're not when you don't do the will of hashem and raika says no we're always banan. So Rabika is the originator of Rome's worldview of Kakuanim Raor learned it from Rabbi Aaka. That's why Rabbi Ysef says one of the reasons we pas like Rome that we're always the beloved children of Hashem is because Rabbi his Rebi Pasins like him. And in any event, even though the Garra says in the only 49 levels of there was one individual who reached the 50th level of the Pik says Raaka saw Rabi was given the shon is the shon Rabika even knew the shon that's why the says that when saw in the yeshiva shamala that was being dish the kiten of the mashabu didn't understand and he was not assuaged until hashem allowed to hear but reached a shun a level that even wasn't now if I could share with you the malamuk teaches >> rabaka is alluded to in the alf ofra how so what do we know about the alf ofayikra it's alf zira small alf the gamatria of al if zira is Revi the matra of alfra is rebiaka. So with that introduction we heading to the great epicenter in a certain sense of the highest level of kma that came down to this world. Good night.