Journey to Belarus: Headed To Radin - The Chofetz Chaim's Value of Time

Okay, good morning everyone. Boca, good morning. Live from your favorite place in the world, Bellarus. For the first ever recording Torah any time in Bellarus. To any time has recorded many locations all over the world, but never yet in Barus. Okay, as we are headed toward Raden, perhaps for the highlight of our entire trip to be at the Mak of the Holy, one of the great lessons that the taught is the value of time would say that he heard from the you know the Gumarra says who is a fool the garra says in the garra says someone who loses whatever you give to him. You know, there's an idea if you have a bunch of kids, which kid gets the most money. You know, you're giving money out to the kids. Which kid gets the most money? The kid who has a wallet. The kid who's not going to lose the money because he's a would say, "But there's nothing more valuable in this world than time." would say Americans say time is money. How foolish that is. Time is not money. What the only value of time is that you can make money. Just the opposite. Money. The value of money is money could be used to purchase time to save time. In America, we evaluate time. How much money can I make in that time? No, that's not the proper attitude. Not time is money. Just the opposite. Money is time. It's very interesting. The when the was scheduled to speak at a certain time, say 8:00. So the wouldn't start getting up to the podium at 8:00. The already made the move at 7:58. And at 8:00 sharp on the dot, 8:00 and 0, the began his scheduled drasha. You know, we're going to learn that passed away in 1933. Three years earlier, the Granat Rabag, who by the way is buried right next to the afterim's kev was refurbished. They refurbished the ke of the granat the granat fell deathly ill and he was very beloved. The granat is one of the four rashivas that restored the amatra. You know who they were? Who are the four rashivas who restored the amatra? Shimankabar and Tali and he became deathly ill and he was very beloved to his talidim and the tamid went around collecting time for the granat one donate was willing to donate a few months to the granat one said I'll give him a week one said three days one said eight hours they came to the rabba reba how much time will you donate to the gad ponder says I will donate to the gad one minute one minute I'll give to the gat that was the value the placed on time when word went out that the was willing to give one minute it created a great impression on the students somebody once visited theatim and he noticed that home was painted white you know like in a an industrial building very simple not not an elegant paint so he was asked you know rabbi why don't you use wallpaper all the time said wallpaper you mean I should rip out pages of my garra and cover the walls of my house with plat of kumar so he said no rabb that's not what I mean I don't mean use the plot of shas I mean there's something called wallpaper. You have beautiful paper that could cover the walls of your house. Says, "How am I going to buy it?" But well, you have to go to work. And then how am I going to get money? Well, the somebody will pay you. But said, "You mean instead of learning Tyra? I should go to work. So you want me to wallpaper my house with black gumar?" Because instead of learning the black gumar, I should go to work to buy wallpaper. some wallpapering my house with the black gamarra. Actually, you know, before it was discovered that smoking was dangerous, already told he would say cuz you'd have to wrap the cigarette and it would take a minute or two for each cigarette. You smoke nine cigarettes a day, that's 18 minutes. That's many, many black kamura a year. I'll just end this segment and I think this is a good beginning. You know the writes in the Mishnaba how early should a person get up before the shakaris before the shaharit 30 minutes before the veer comes the veer would come to bang on the shutters. As you all know here in Bellarus you know they have shutters and the veer would come bang on the shutters right 30 minutes before the veer comes to wake up you need to start rising for shakra. So one time the's grandson said za za how old are you? So the ignored the question so the kid dropped it. and he figured, you know, that uh didn't want to answer the question. A little while later, the gives his grandson an envelope of cash. What's the what's the currency here in uh Belarus? Rubble. Rubble. He gave him bills. He gave him a wad of bills in in a closed envelope. So, the boy says, "Oh, thank you so much, Si." He slips it into his uh slips it into his pocket. Says, "I don't understand. You're not counting. You're not opening up the envelope to see how much money is in the envelope." So, first the kid said, "You know, first of all, Zeta, just the fact that you gave me a gift is so precious to me. It doesn't really matter how much money is in there. Second of all, it's really bad taste to start counting how much money is in the envelope as uh when the when the benefactor just gave it to you. Said the greatest gift we have in this world is time. And just like it's bad taste to say to look at how much cash is in the envelope, it's bad taste when somebody asks how old you are to start counting the years in front of the ribbon as if you're trivializing just the fact that the gave us life. That is such a dear and precious gift. It would trivialize it to start counting it like you're counting cash. This is one of the great teachings of the the great value of time.