Money Matters in Heaven

You know, when it comes to mitzvot, when it comes to the Torah, there's a lot of uh issues that have to do with money. Uh a lot of things that have to do with money. Why? Because the Gemara in Masechet Shabbat says that when a uh person is finished with his life in this world, Hakadosh Baruch Hu will ask him questions at the Beit Din of Heaven. And the first question that Hashem is going to ask a person is not about whether he put on tefillin, it's not about whether he kept Shabbat, it's not about even of whether he protected his brit. The first question that a person is going to be asked in Shamayim is money matters. Did you conduct your business with emunah? Meaning, how did you deal with money? Did you steal from people? Did you destroy their life? Were you in a predatory business like the cash advance industry that pretends to help people but in reality is destroying their lives? All types of other similar industries that are simply preying on people's ignorance? Or did you have emunah in Hashem and regardless of whether you were a plumber or you sold cars or you built buildings or you invested, whatever it was, you did what you did honestly because you knew that Hashem is watching everything. How did you do deal with your money? So, when it comes to the Torah, there are many things that have to do with money. Not just donations, not just loans, but literally everything. Why? Because money is called blood in the words of the Gemara because people spend their entire life, their entire blood chasing it, making it, spending it. And it's very important for a person to know where they stand by simply looking at how they deal with money, how they relate to money, how they treat money. How do they uh idolize money? All of these issues have a lot to do with a