Utilizing Our Time Properly - Rav Moshe Scheinerman Shlit"a

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The Rambam in Peddalishna says as follows and I say many times in my sh when Arishine speaks Sai speaks it is as if we are hearing a voice emanating from the most pristine place that this earth possesses and that's says the After a person leaves this world, there is absolutely no means by which he can attain on his own. Only through his actions in can one indeed be to all the all the infinite amount of life and pleasure that the next world has to offer. There's nothing that can be gained once we are in the ca once we are buried. It happens to everybody once said mentions or people who think that there's a a union of I never pay the dues therefore I'm not one of them and therefore I will be able to escape being part of that that group that union says that every person is It is incumbent upon us to utilize the time that we were given in this world. It is a onetime shot. I was once stuck on the ramp going up the George Washington Bridge for about two hours going towards the bridge and after hearing all that the many 18 minutes worth of telling us that all there is to hear about the concerning the news of the world I became bored and I started to count the windows on the apartment building. And that's how bored I was. But I was all kadai because after two hours of standing there, I noticed a bumper sticker right in the card in front of me. And the bumper sticker said as follows. This is not a rehearsal. Our life is a one-time shot. Never again shall we pass this this mo this stage. Whatever we can accomplish in this world shall remain with us forever. This is not a rehearsal for for our another performance. There is no other performance. There is nothing else. It is just this world. Therefore, we should spend our time trying to better our We should only spend our resources on only those things that are impossible without them. There are those who who utilize their time in this world that is considered that they are considered successful by virtue of the fact that they can spend their days and nights nights and days, weeks and weekends, months and years. Pashin which means spending the time and in in indulging them allowing themselves to indulge themselves whether it's in in or other but it is an indulging indulgement and that is that will get you no place the way they came in this world with nothing. These people who live their lives of eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow you might die. They will leave the world like they came says and is an eternal loss. And you should know saysam, I'm not being anything to you. He says most of the masses and he's not talking about the episcipalians or the Catholics. He's talking about us. Most of the Jews, most of the they seek through cloistering themselves, they should not be exposed to the to the to the influences of the goes world and life. Oh, they are losing life. They're not experiencing life. They have nothing from life. They're the big losers. Those who are are who are are spend their time enjoying this world and all the amenities that it has to offer. You know something? They are the ones who have this world. They are says, "They are they're utilizing that which is and they think it's and the think can only give them at the end of the day or the end of their lives. And woe is to those who forfeit the This is we're being told that a Jew has to spend his time in the right way. Our time there is no free time. I remember when I was in camp deal as a youngster in New Jersey in Deal, New Jersey, there used to be after supper before the night activity, they gave us a half hour. It was very structured the whole camp. They gave us a half hour which they call they called it quote unquote free time. Do what you want. play baseball, basketball, run, jump. It wasn't structured. A Jew has absolutely not one second in this world which is not called for. He has has absolutely no time. He's not allowed theologically to space out. He's not allowed to spend time for himself. Every moment is to be called for each person according to his Madrega. Of course, he said, "What should I say? It's at there's no way that I can possibly be I'll say the same that says what was the received from he was ever means in lumis if a person says my dear master 99% of my time is yours but I need one minute a day for a smoke or whatever I want it's one minute is for myself I want that one minute to say means there's nothing that you withhold for yourself. Everything is for for the master. In our case, it's so this is what the is telling us. Let me go further. The ina the kinder the children of the goyan bring down something very in in clear words. They say this Please tell all and sundry. They should not spend their time doing nothing. You have that man one day is going to end. It is a it is finite. It it's not infinite. And that time must be utilized in to as much as you possibly can. As we'll see in a few moments, says the minutes, seconds, they're all going to be called for. What did you do in that minute? What? What do you mean you just sat there doing nothing? You were given breath. You were given life. It is to be utilized. The go's timeization would be expected as expected was greater than we can ever attain. But the hashk is the same. The had and the we should have should be equal. That should be there should not be any difference. The dash is time utilization in this world time should be the same. They say part of his greatness was that a man he became a go from minutes in between he had a sed where he picked up a certain safer and he learned a certain in between his shurum the go the a from when he went to visit the imm he came back mully his spilus what was his spilus gazani saw that the Imry hadim of five minutes a five minute what could you accomplish the was to show yes indeed five minutes issky once said he was a rob in England he said I visit the sick every day that's my job as being the raosshi that's what he was at the time in England he was the head of the bin and he said when I go into the hospital and I visit the wards What is the wish of those yidden who are attached to instruments in the hospital? They're hospitalized. They're attached to this instrument and that in what is their give me your wish and I'll try to to to your wish is my command. What could we what is it? I I can't wait. my I should be freed from these instruments and go back to the base and hear the and that's a fact that's when they get when they're sick and they see that the end is possibly near nearer than they would have thought otherwise we'll soon see in a few minutes gate the chuva againish listen how he articulates this chuva in the o zion We're We all like to think that, you know, we're middle-aged, but then again, I don't know how many people live to 100, they could say 50 is middle age. And you know what I mean by that? Which but we see that we don't have the same strength strengths that we once had. You see that your days are numbered. You know, there's a joke that when a guy drops something and he's middle-aged, quote unquote, and he goes down to pick it up, he says to himself, "What else could I do while I'm down here?" Because it was difficult to get down there. What he sees he is slowly his body is betraying him and he sees the end. So how does he spend his life continuing with friv with with frivolous behavior and doing things which will not bring him any I'll say it but I said to somebody this morning someone this morning told me that off to Spain and to Portugal. Why you off to Spain and Portugal? Because uh we're going to take a tour of the old Jewish neighborhoods. You know the Raj was in it. I said give me a break. Give me you're going to really have episi. What's your excuse? You're a very wealthy man. That means you have so much time to waste. You should be spending this time in the B medish and going getting some sun outside the base and coping a swim which is good for your but it do for your I told the same thing to to a couple of my there's a true story. Three years ago they wanted to go on a boat a cruise to to to see the icebergs off the coast of Alaska. The icebergs. You know what they are right? Big mountains of ice. I said nuts and that are on the ships leaving that out of the picture. How are you such a wealthy individual you can wait 10 days of your life which will bring you in absolutely no revok for your please explain it to me. Vacation sounds very benign but vacation is only mandated only you only have is if you need it for your gazund otherwise in Bish you have the times in Bris let me quote you from a mo but I wrote it in English massive everyone has to realize we're all traveling towards our to the end of our days in this world in the day and the night, the nights and the days, we're traveling. We're going towards the finish line. But listen to this quote from one of the body betrays you as you get older and that we all know. But the nama never betrays you. It can soar higher and higher until the time comes for you to leave this world. That nish is forever. And if you keep your nishama going, even though your body will betray you, that part of you, that soil part of the soul, that timely part of the time lease, it will betray you. And yet you're spending your days and your nights catering to it to the extent that how much are you giving away? [snorts] Kamat he said he once passed by a shoe maker and he saw it fell working at night the sun is down there's no electricity and he put on a nail so he asked him how long are you going to be working here at night asked this shoemaker the shoe he says what do you mean as long as the is burning I will continue working says As long as my which is my is working is here. As long as I have my I will try to make my body conform to from the head from the shoe maker that he said to him how long are you going to remain here and work? He says, "As long as this snare is alive, is still flickering and flocking, I will be able to continue working as long as still alive. Argu there was you all knew her. So I was on the phone with her when she broke her hip and it was in San Diego, California. And she told me of a story which was she went with her father alum to visit to visitin to get a get a from him. And um when walked into the room her father said to her that's why she was so stand up theim has entered the room of she asked what should I tell people to look at me my daughter what do you see I see the you see my two eyes, right? Yeah. I'm blind. You don't see two eyes. What you see, and I quote, is which means dried out meat. I have no more eyes. I'm blind. It's it's dried out meat flesh. That's all you see. Then says, "Go tell people. Tell the young ones." And we're all young, by the way, because every day we're newborn as we'll see in a few moments. But we're all young. We all have life to live. And every day can present to us that we have no we cannot fathom what kind of nit we could have. Go tell the youngsters as follows. Do not be mazes your do not in any which way treat thisman that you have in this world frivolously. It's a one time shot. You will also be one day which means the end once we're older there's no how what we will what gifts we will be given gift she's 103 years old is perfect she sees she hears perfectly talk that conversation mish like a young young lady it's a matona but who has such a matona very far and wide very you the goyan Alexander Ziskinus in the Imra brings down from the I'm not if you think I'm trying to scare you I'm trying to be I'm giving these are bonafide marco these are not fringe mar these are bonafide mary zoyan as when a person leaves the base after he's na until the kura his entire life is played out in front of him. These are the words. I'm not going to read the words to you. And he says even if he wouldn't die from the of seeing how he wasted so much time, he could have been there to so much more that in itself could kill him. I could have gotten with this and that of seeing how I futched. I have no other way of explaining what Futch is, but I futched. I did not spend my life, my time properly. A man a a a man came to Ravaran le he said my wife says I must come to you I must come to you why you see I'm very successful and I bought myself a gorgeous car and my wife is afraid that people are going to be jealous and it's not good for us people are jealous of us and Ben no No one could afford a carl, let alone a brand new car and and a and a a ritzy car. Says, he asks him, he says, "Shoot, do you know Shas?" He says, "No, no, no. You could keep the car. No problem. No one will be jealous of you. Nobody will be jealous." They had their priorities. They understood what we're here for. says to him, "I do not want to die because I want to live." Well, of course, you don't want to die because you want to live. What is telling us says also key can mean also has a meaning different places in Tanakh whilst I do not want to be dead while I am alive. Now it's an oxymoron. How can I be dead while I'm alive? that when a person spends a day, you know is we call it a vacation day. I'm going to call it an unmandated vacation day. Away from the away from doing away from saying to him, Oh, really? That's called It's a dead day. Yes. I do not want to be dead while I'm alive, whilst I'm alive. How many people who spend their lives going to who knows where and who knows what, accomplishing nothing for their zel, for their and they're considered alive. That's considered mason. They're dead. He says as follows. that the tag the days have to be full days not a half a day a whole day. Dr. Kachinsky says in one of his dashes he wrote a safe he says I got to and I see tombstone of 1921 the whole basis they died so young nigh neigh neigh neigh neigh thanden that's how many days or how many years they lived accomplishing everything else wasn't alive those were That's not a cold accomplishing writes as follows. Now these are words which you take. This is not this is says created the world for him to create the world for 6,000 years six millennia to say one time from the end of time one articulate only once. It's so that one year should say that. So we see this that we have for saying it's worth creation of the world, sustaining the world, carrying the world for 6,000 years. But that's nothing. He goes further. The And a thousand times aid says a thousand do not come to one. That means one is a thousand more times more than briam until the end of time which isn't which which doesn't even take care of and then he goes and says the piesta resistance as we say in French [clears throat] a thousands do not come to The shall meet us after all the equations. This is major. How much we could accomplish for ourselves if we take this lesson and say to ourselves, I have a minute. I'm gonna use use it. I'll say to hill it's one word of I'll din I'll go to a here till the guy comes I'll meet you in 10 minutes you come and get me I want to get the it's worth thousands of years kamitki was once asked by a talmid his mother was very ill and uh there were many problems she had many sicknesses including she had to have a lady even come and clean her and take care of her she couldn't take care of herself And she became very dejected as we can appreciate. She lost her self-esteem and she became depressed that she couldn't even take care of herself. And she said I should leave this world. It's so degrading and s so depressing. Said as follows. It's important to hear this. If we have if there's the Malik said to to Yanku of leave me let me go I have to go sing by Medish that Malik was created for one purpose to say Shira on that morning. When was the Malik created? He was created 2,000 years priam. That's when Malik were created. No malik was created after the creation ex nilo shas brium that means says of kamitki this malik was around for 2,000 years for the one purpose only to sing once only once was he will he be utilized to sing that morning that is his mission in this world for that he was created 2,000 years prior to to this episode says of kami If your mother understands the she would understand that what she's accomplishing for her soul is is far far outweighs the difficulties that she's going through. Of course, she's going through difficulties, but what is she accomplishing for her soul? As mentioned, the soul does not fch on us. The soul does not rebel on us. The soul as mentioned before we brought you the the the um the lion if you don't mind does not betray us and we can this we can accomplish with a let's not take it aping you misses you know what you're missing here goes the mathematics a thousand times a thousand times a thousand and if you come late to a miss of it's astronomical This is what told him today I'm doing my whatever it is and tomorrow I'll learn. Let's say indeed that day will come and you'll do it but you still missed today. You could have done it today. It's brought down if a person is you allowed to write it down only. It's not I won't forget it. It's you know why? Because because it's called Do you hear how Mishb is thinking? Are we following? There was a man and Elo ink. His name was Aram Arya Kaplan. Raba said, "Those of you who have pens and paper, write this down. It's an adage and it's it's genius and it encapsulates everything we just said. Two lines. Listen to what he it's there's a Shir which he wrote. I'm sure you're familiar with with the Shir. I went with my father loving and of kamitki to beak rebasilski who was a rebadas when he was in Sloan Ketering and a few days before he was nifa and sang for him and I sat there and I heard it how was singing for him there's one [snorts] phrase in this niggan that says as follows and I quote Days go, days come. Those days that come and go, I gave nothing. Nothing foray. I gave nothing forum. No, no, no. Felos, not even a good word to another Jew. Good morning. How are you? I took nothing in for myself. I did not. Then he says, here's the words. If this is what is called, if this is the shall we say the the the the essence of if this is that a Jew could live in this world then please tell me it's got to be worse than this. What could be worse than this? What could be worse than not giving or not taking? to the extent that lives in this world. And if we think into and by the way and five minutes without two hours Emily Ki maz I can spend hours. Someone someone told asked me and is spacing out also considered biddlesman. I should have done. He sure is. You have no right to to space out the [clears throat] he wants to build a yeshiva of okay sounds good utopian. But you know why? Not because of that. You know why I want a yeshiva of guys who fells who don't do aren't aren't do not do perform iniquities because I want to have who don't have to do they're so involved and with that is the most important asset that we have that we will ever have. A rich man with no man is not worth anything. A p po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po po poor person with plenty man has everything that's in his if you'll understand what I'm saying is good if not he says be so to us it should be the quintessence of life by us so much that if you waste some time you should feel as if we as if your blood is being gizen is pouring out of you because there's no difference between man and because haz is huam this a article which someone once wrote concerning the yidden who wrote the tyra in in the I think I'm not sure in in a whole page the night before they were killed I'm saying you that's quickly vital gate. How far did Ashkafa go? The stipul came to him came to him and said, "Reb, let's think out of the box. We're not narrow-minded. Think out of the box. I am the focal focal point, the focus of of of scorn in my in my in my yeshiva. People make fun of me. They they they derail me. They they I'm not considered a minion. And I don't know why, but that's my mat. What should I do? It bothers me tremendously. What should I do? Says a stipler, I hear you. Let me say something to you, my dear friend. You know, life is only 70 years as mentioned or 80 in big vuro. So if you're going to continue this way, you end up living your life not accomplishing anything. So perhaps you're suffering. I hear you. But that should never ever serve as an excuse to give away life. Your life is much too. So it's bash. You should live with this. I can't help you but you should understand the downside and if you understand the upside of your develop devoting yourself to all this and devoting yourself to something meaningful for your ni is for your nephesh then all of this will not bother you. The stifler was saying if we appreciate what life is the matona of life as we'll see in a few minutes even more then we would not allow these things to bother us. I I'm too busy like like like like like the I'm too busy learning. I have no time to be I'm too busy I'm too involved in what a person should be involved in in this world. I cannot I don't have someone asked me to come to Lakewood Shabis and give a dash in the winter time. I said he said what do you mean? I said let me tell you something to to Lakewood is an hour and a half an hour and 45 minutes coming back another hour and an hour number mathematics of three and a half hours I believe am I correct I believe so then the dasha for a half hour 45 minutes that's four and a half hours almost I cannot at my stage in life give away four and a half hours of my life I have to spend it doing something which is more I I I I reap a greater profit for my nish every day is a maton every single day is a maton and I have no right to to be to proise a rich man that I'm 16 17 or 18 or 20 that I could give my life away like that if it was for don't get me wrong but for whatever it might be no that's not where I am that's a stipul said if we appreciate and then if we appreciate what life is think about it so many of our personal problems would dissipate as you'd say in Yiddish like the furic so many of our personal problems that serve to make us unhappy on a daily basis they wouldn't exist because I'm too busy I cannot think about other it'll stare my learning and I'm here for one purpose so that my should become I should establish that total synthesis between My goof that my goof becomes kesh for my mid brought into focus this hash hashka he says ly tsuya there'll be cons a day of emancipation all the mason can get up from their graves and they could have an hour or two whatever it might be and they're free but after two hours they got to go And this is going to be broadcast I'm not going to say in social media but it'll be broadcast all over right to any time they'll have it for sure two hours what will we all do to the basic to see our relatives [snorts] It would cause event to sink infinite. That's what we would do. What would the mason do? I'll tell you what they would be doing. They would say, "Excuse me, I was in Shamayan and I see what one minute of can accomplish. I have 120 minutes I'm being given now of learning. If I learn when I go back to Shamayan, I'll be able to soar and go further and enjoy the Shamayan. I'm sorry, my dear relatives. I need to find the nearest base so I can devote myself these two hours to limit. It's magnificent. The title of this mimer of the of the alt of enelum isuki this world is the the world the world of the marketplace. Some people spend their time in the marketplace trying to find happiness in the world of the mundane of the material. But here we're being told not that way. brings into a excuse me get the portion of the I don't have it here doesn't matter with that pro is saying that cost of our life safer cost of our life safer to heal him was written already what is cost of a liafer zamsky I'll tell you everyone writes their own safer in this world it starts on the right cover and it ends on the left on the end cover on the left side in between is sandwiched pages every day some people says our braki their safer is so thin there's nothing to put in between the two they don't have what to put into the the page is empty. What'd you do today? I slumbered. What' you do today? What'd you do today? Forget about when I say what you accomplish in a positive way those that's what is saying I want to write a safer safer to him that'll be so thick that every page will be another another that I helped that I helped who I helped our job is to make sure that the safer that we're going to we're writing now is so thick you have to have a a strong man to pick it up because every single day will be inscripted what he did that day in his life. I'm going to come in front after after 70 years old he came. It's major every day. We're riding that safer. Everyone's writing his own writes writes that means it is not something which is circa 2023 writes that in his days when he saw being in heavenish and we just let alone why Not leave the fellow alone. Let him enjoy life. We are like the blind being being led by this gates of spending our lives involving in heav. Let me end with a martial not a misl that happened. There was a year of zimvul roshield for the Rothschilds. I think he was the first one and very wealthy man and if a Jew is wealthy that automatically brings with it jealousy and the the the the marriets of the government they wanted to get him and they heard he's extremely wealthy and uh they even heard that he had a room in his house house that no one's allowed to go into that room. Nobody. Aha. That's the room where he hides all the emeralds and all the gold and all the silver and all the diamonds and all the precious. We're going to get him because in accordance to the taxes that he pays to the governor and that room which is full with all kinds of shall we say goodies, he should be paying a lot more. So they went to the governor and they received a permit to go force him to open that room. They figured that way they'll get him. And Rothschild said, "No. Uh-uh. It's there's nothing there. It's my room." And they said, "Sorry, you have to open the room." He pulled them to the side and he said, "Listen, fellas. How much money do you think is in that room?" They said, "Well, an exorbitant amount, a tremendous." They gave an tremendously exorbitant amount. Whereupon he said, "You know what? I'll give the treasury that amount." They said, "Whoa, nothing to him." That even weted their appetite even more. Then he said, "Look, what's the most you think that this room could have?" And they told him, he said, "I'll give double. Just leave me alone. You'll gain and I'll gain." They went to the governor. Governor said, "It sounds too intriguing. No, we want that room opened." They went and they he got the key. Only he had the key. He opened the door. In that room was a mata that said po tomun shim vulv vield and he explained that since he has so much money he was afraid that it would get to his head that he is something special and there's one way of knocking out puncturing that ga that a person might have yamisa and he said that's my special room I go in every single night and I learn musa in front of that mat so that I should make sure to walk the path of the straight and narrow. I should never ever deviate from that mob say is not the optional. It's the imperative aid has no right to close a gamur. I'm going to say it the way it's supposed to be said. Unless you're doing something which is like the Rama brings down go back to but otherwise we have no right unless it's for gaz or or for some other reason which is indeed mandated by the and look at the upside that we're g being given. We're being told over here that if you spend your life in these kind of pursuits, spiritual pursuits and that indeed what you're doing is worth more than the creation of the world until the end of time. We know they once asked when did you write your say for aza just to give you an an inkling of what how lived their lives. She says what do you mean? He says by fourth my fourth seda fourth sed you your first seda you're in the yeshiva ramis second sed you're in the bin at night you collect money for your so when's the fourth when I say I'm till I fall asleep that's in GIFA once told me that Aram Kovich went to laser tells it and he spoke to my learning and told last time when I was sleeping Iash tells said back by tells You have to think about the territory. Are you in you know brings down it's that we have when they were you know they were they were falling half asleep and should even quote it that is falling asleep. What kind of what is that? Says the Arizal that's his that's when the Amoroyan totally left this world and they were able to be mas things that are not that are outworldly not worldly. So sleep also plays a role. You know I heard a galdi once a very sharp is very sharp begins with did you know that the first take a look and you know the very first is I as far as I I recall is the you make before you go to sleep at night. What is doing in says he says you don't understand your preparation for the next day begins of how you go to sleep how you go to sleep what's your when you go to sleep I'm going to get up early doesn't stop going to sleep he's going to sleep to get for the next day so he can learn by the go there's a night life once said a night life all the go out at night that's a night life by the his night life is the when he goes to sleep at night he's thinking about what I get in the morning to learn my instead of some people say that I can't even say the words they go to sleep watching something or reading something which is niched is also you're getting ready for that if you think into learning when you're going to sleep you could be you think about the things when you're sleeping and who knows what you'll be masik I say without any sense of exaggeration when I was riding my safe on sukia many many years ago when I was sleeping I was stuck for two three days I I I was sleeping I thought of a terret and while I was sleeping I said it can't be the right terret because I'm sleeping now and when I was up it wasn't a good I' a terrorist. So this can't be a terrorist. And I got up and I said, you know, the ter was a terun. This is the way our bodies work. Our mind takes over the may to start life a new. Why do we wash our hands in the morning from a cleas doesn't need a cle says that this takes everything we just said and puts them into steroids. Every day we are born again Jews and the shamas are taken away. We given a clea because a dvishabdushia has just entered. Our bodies has now been fitted refitted or I'm not sure which English word to even use but refitted with our and that's of kadusha notice of nikus and that means our the sum total of our lives here it goes is one day the sum total of our lives is one day every day is a new kadusha which We used with with by being ourselves with a clea because we're now being retrofitted or fitted with an charged go ahead and be mim today is the sum total of your life. If we think in such terms I say then wow wow you know the alter wrote wrote to the lazy ud a letter and he signed it with with with this the following following thing he says every day when you get up I want you to think of three things you hear think of three things when you get up every single day that you're the only Jew in the world you have one black gamura to learn and you have only one day to learn it. That encompasses everything that we said. If a yid will live his life with these three, you're the only yid in the world. You have one day to accomplish to live and you have only one blot that has to be learned. Oi, would we live our lives differently? It wouldn't even be in the soy. I can't go there today. I'm dead tonight. I'm dying tonight. I'd have a date with B at 12. I don't turn into a pumpkin, but I I drop dead. That's the way I am. That's the life I have. We wouldn't spend our lives frivolously. That's the So we make when we wash our hands in the morning. 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