'One step closer' - Invest your time right! - Rabbi Alon Anava

one time there was a king the king had an only son finally the son got married everybody in the kingdom got an invitation one guy gets an invitation in the mail he can't believe it he cannot believe it he's invited to the palace he's so excited he buys a new suit pins the invitation to the wall he can't believe it he's marking the days every day another guy on the other side of the town doesn't get an invitation in the mail a whole entourage of people come and invite him second to the king ministers generals they all come to personally invite him the day of the wedding comes the guy that got the invitation puts on his suit gets so excited puts the invitation in his pocket runs down the second he goes out starts pouring he's like how am i going to make it without getting wet he waits for the bus to come down as the bus is coming down he starts running out to the bus stop the bus driver doesn't see him starts driving away he starts running after the bus hey hey hey the buster's driving he's running after the bus wait the bus drives off and he falls into a puddle gets out of the puddle soaking weight starts running after the bus stop the wedding in the meantime the other guy that got the invitation with all the entourage of people he's not going on a bus outside limousines apart helicopters in the air soldiers are guarding him they're lifting him up slowly softly into the limousine 12 o'clock at night the wet guy finally arrives into the wedding the gates already closed he's coming soaking wet on the ray he was robbed he was mugged he's gushing blood the soldiers the guards tell him stop where are you going he said i'm invited to the wedding show us your invitation please he puts his inhale his hand into his pocket pulls out the invitation he's so soaking wet the invitation is there's nothing left the guards tell them we're very sorry we can't accept that we need an invitation he tells them invitation look in the list i'm telling you i'm invited invitation i mean an invitation i'm on the list the invitation said are you out of your mind you know what i went to to come to this wedding look at me i'm soaking wet i'm gushing blood i was robbed i was mocked i was beaten up you gotta let me in you're not coming in he looks through the gates maybe you can see somebody inside that he knows maybe pull some strings he looks all the way at the end he sees the king sitting on the main stage next to the king is the bride and groom and next to the king on the other side is the guy who came with all the limousines and he's selling them guys let me in telling you i'm invited you're not coming it the point of the story is very simple we are all invited to the wedding all of us the question is how are you going to get to the wedding and when you're finally there where are you going to be are you going to be inside or you're going to be next to the king or you're going to be outside wet gushing blood with a plate of sushi we're all invited to the wedding we're all getting there the only difference in this wedding this is not an eight-hour wedding in a hall this is the eternal wedding or maba eternity and in that wedding you choose where you want to sit some people say i'm fine with being just being inside and you know taking those sausages that has the wrap around it i'm fine with that i want to be next to the king because this is for eternity so i choose that my entire life is devoted to the king so i wake up in the morning for the king the whole day long of serving the king because when comes the wedding i want to be right next to the king and you know how i'm getting there i'm getting there with limousines i don't want to come on a bus i mean you can finally get to the wedding but what if the journey is a little bit bumpy trust me you do not want to meet that bumpy way to the wedding so that's why how i choose to be how i am because i want to guarantee that my eternity is next to the king first class see that woke you up so you leave this door tonight and you choose where you want to be in the in the wedding you want to be next to the king you want to be around you want to be outside you want to be wet you choose we all get to the wedding and you invest in this world every second in this world you one step [Music] closer you