Make Your Days Count

[music] >> In 1969, a psychologist named Robert [music] Ornstein published an experiment that devoured everything. He proved that the brain does not measure time. It measures the amount of new information. The more stimuli there are per minute, [music] the shorter the time feels. TikTok, 100 videos per minute, time flies. >> [music] >> Boring class, one idea every half hour, time is running out. And that's why we're not wasting time [music] scrolling. We're erasing it. An entire hour disappears and [music] we remember nothing from it and we ask, "Where did the week go? Where did the month go? Where did the summer vacation go?" We're young, but life slips through our fingers. 3,000 years ago, Moses prayed a special request, "Teach us to number [music] our days so that we may gain a heart of wisdom." Let's understand this. Moses didn't ask, "Give me more time." He asked, "Teach me to count the days." The counting of the Omer is the demonstration of this. 49 days [music] during which we force ourselves to pause and count because what isn't counted disappears. >> [music] >> Science says that time without information vanishes from the brain. Moses knew that time without intention disappears [music] from life. The Holy One, blessed be He, did not give us endless days. He gave us these days [music] and asks us to count them. Let's not let life fly by without us having seen it. Let's count and live.