Remember What to Live for - Rabbi Avi Schneider

partially emor as a party discusses many of the jewish holidays the among them is the kagosukas it says in the past this is brought down the concept of that you have to own your love and estrogen means it has to be yours but the magistrate brings out another idea of what the word actually means means this is for your sake this is done for you it's for your benefit you're given certain things in order to enjoy them in life now it doesn't mean enjoy them because you enjoy the fragrance of the uh the sweet esrog fruit it means there's something about the mitzvah that creates a level of enjoyment there's a um a major that goes on the same mattress from asraba so i wanted to describe a story of a rebbe and ataman rabbi yochanan was the rebbe and his talmud was they were walking and on their journey together they were going from tavera to tsipori and while they were walking together every once in a while they would pass by a certain area there was a vineyard one time there was a uh a wine area let's say one here i'm sorry an olive press a few different locations that they passed by and each time robiokin responded to his talmud i used to own that wine that that wine press i used to own that vineyard i used to own that olive orchard and i sold it i sold it for torah i sold it so i could be able to have enough money to study torah after over and over again about five or six different times when the rebbe tells the time of the same message the talmud looks at him and starts to cry the rabbi says what are you crying for the talmud responds i'm crying because you left nothing for yourself for old age when you get older what are you going to have in the end you've given it all up which which one recites the puzzle and explains that to give all of your money up for torah for the purpose of studying of learning is demonstrates your priorities what you value most the muscles brought down jack of golinski brings down a mushroom of a pig a pig who is uh for him the biggest treat is is when someone throws something in the garbage that still is tasty but it's leftover the pig goes over to the garbage and it tries to find that which its heart desires story goes it was a lady who uh shabbos she finished her children she had leftovers through in the garbage by accident she threw also her diamond ring in the garbage so what does the pig do the pig starts to look for the garbage that sunday's multi shop starts to load them up and it goes over to the garbage and it uh starts to take its snout and finds finds a bag of chilling while it's chewing the chill and it gets in its mouth uh the ring of course it's not edible and spits it out and throws it to the side and it continues on with the rest of the of the garbage that it wants to eat for itself says ryokan this is exactly what life's about sometimes we're so busy eating the leftover chilies and the diamond rings we push aside total learning torah opportunities you think that the vineyards be more valuable for me than the torah opportunities that i have the vineyard what's up was an opportunity to get more torah it's not it's not an end of itself and that's why he's hold it that's why don't be upset with me everything worked out well i was able to use it to give myself a great opportunity today is also yo mazi karun just this morning my shiva we went to a heart herzl and we witnessed tens of thousands of people coming to pay their respects to their loved ones who have perished who were killed in different uh over the course of of decades of almost a century of wars that have taken place in eric israel and they realize that there are some things in life that are just that are important and they're they're more important than anything else and as you see them stand by every one of them served and was ready to sacrifice themselves for a priority they felt was worth it the land of israel ought to israel you reminds us as opposed to uh moral day in america where it's an opportunity to barbecue or take an extra weekday for the weekend it's a time when when you reflect on what we value in life we have to realize that sometimes we're busy with it with our with our snout searching around for a little piece of potato google a little potato in our chileans and the process we stumble across as diamonds we push it in the cycles it's in our way be able to spend the next few weeks counting towards mathem torah is the biggest treat in the world to realize that we push away all the children and all the chicken bones till we find that beautiful ring that's awaiting us hashem gave us his present towards us it's a gift that was given for our sake to live in the world we appreciate and value that which is really truly meant to be valued