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it's interesting you mentioned time and
how time is more valuable than money if
you were to ask a 95-year-old
billionaire trillionaire how much would
he pay to be 20 years old healthy and
have a whole life ahead of him you know
I would imagine most if not all would
say give me give me the time right take
all the money so there's uh a lot of
Truth to that right I think uh everyone
would
acknowledge there are more valuable
Commodities than uh than money you know
the would say he spent so much time
working in the office so you could have
nice
wallpaper said you wallpapered your
house with pages of the gamarra that you
could have learned that was the trade
you know like look at the wallpaper are
you are you enjoying it now right was
that a smart decision again
God wants us to be happy and he wants us
to enjoy this world and he wants us to
appreciate his Bounty he doesn't want us
to live in a cave or live in a hob but
on the other hand there are decisions
that everyone has to make in life and
which World should we be focused
on what do you want more which world do
you
want which world do you want it's
interesting because in some religions
they view money as inherently evil and
for us it's a tool but it's not a tool
that's looked down upon no no I mean
thear says re re would honor people with
money this is someone who God gave an
amazing tool God trusts this person God
is giving this person an opportunity to
gain uh
because with money is time money is time
look what God is giving this person God
is giving this person the ability the
potential for great life not great
wealth great life
interesting okay so we got friends we
got time learning Torah spending time
with Children what else comes to mind
when you're uh driving the car down the
highway and you're thinking I could have
money or I could have
blank well we are in the 10 days of
repentance
and uh you know Health Care reform is a
very hot issue where the question is
Health Care
allocation 40% of a person's health care
costs are in person's final years of
life so the question is uh the modern
world says well is that a wise way to
allocate our funding
on person's life at the end of their
years when the mind is not functioning
so well when the kidneys are not so
functioning so well when the whole body
is run down you know let's give it to
someone healthier they have people who
evaluate the these things they're called
quaes quality adjusted life years in
other words in the modern world it's a
matter of quality of
life and that's a ideal which is
antithetical to traditional Judaism we
don't believe in quality of life we
believe in sanctity of life life is is
Sanctified whether one is 20 and in
perfect health or one is 95 and is
gasping to to stay here on this world
you know the Tama teaches us that as
important as chabas is we will desecrate
the chabas to save someone's life let's
say somebody Falls a building collapses
and someone's in there and we could
desecrate the shabas to save them but we
will only prolong their life by 2
seconds are you to Des create the chabas
to prolong someone's life by two seconds
okay what are they going do in two
seconds you know what could they
possibly do in two seconds the one of
the Reon one of the medieval
commentaries explained we will desecrate
the shabas to prolong someone's life
even for two moments
why in that two seconds the person can
have a thought of repentance and we
believe that if a person's mind they
have a sincere thought of repentance of
regret for wrongdoing of Yearning to
come closer to God that thought of
repentance is so valuable it's more
valuable perhaps in a person's whole
lifetime we're taught
inos better as one
moment of repentance and good has this
world than the entire afterlife so in
one moment where a person is nearly dead
and is not functioning on all cylinders
in fact he's basically in the next world
but if he can muster the focus to say
you know I regret something I did in my
life I wish I could come closer to God
that thought we call it a heror that
fleeting thought is more valuable than
anything in this world so we believe you
know it's more valuable than money
repentance these 10 days these 10 days
are the most valuable Days of our year
you know where we focus on chuva on
bettering ourself on correcting any
misdeed between us and God between us
and a fellow man we owe people money we
got to pay them back you owe people
wages you got to pay them back you know
that's that's step one by the way you
know this is the kosher money show
before you want to come close up there
you got to make sure your personal
interactions are in order you don't want
to go into the high holidays owing
anybody money or having one buck in your
bank account that doesn't belong to you
so that's like the first order of
business so chuva repentance I just tell
you you know Rabbi JD BL tells a story
of uh he went to visit an elderly
grandmother in the hospital and he sees
you know the doctor's not doing anything
for the lady he says what's going on you
know you're not giving her uh um fluids
you're not giving her nourishment they
say she's old she's about to die let her
die in peace let her die in peace he
said do for her whatever you could do
for her to prolong her life okay is
there so he turns to the
grandmother and he says Baba grandma and
Baba
chab it was Saturday was she responded
like with her last
gasp you know what she did in that last
second you know that rabar one of the
great teach that if you say good chabas
to someone you fulfill the positive
precept of kidos of sanctifying the
seventh day you know we all sanctify the
seventh day we make kidos night on a cup
of wine but if you don't have a cup of
wine you just wish somebody a good
chabas you fulfill the Commandment of
God and that one moment that her life
was prolonged she fulfilled the
Commandment of God and we don't believe
in quality of life we believe in
sanctity of life every moment so more
valuable than money is time is time
