THE VALUE OF TIME

[Music] your perspective of money as you get more and more tat changes now when you get to high level like the sages money simply becomes meaningless to you so much so that when somebody came to Steinman one of his came to him in a joking way says you know R there was one guy that was rich guy we told him we need to donate for the ISA he says listen I'm willing to give you guys a half a million dollars but one condition I want to steinerman to engrave a pen for me you know write his name on a pen for me you give me that pen I'll give you half a million dollars you know come on you're going to make such commands of one of the biggest rabbis in the world are you ridiculous okay that's my condition so was saying a joke this guy has no respect for the Tora he wants to no no no why not why not $500,000 for why not good just I need somebody to teach me how to engrave bring me somebody to engrave and how much percentage is the r going to give from the $500,000 nothing why what do I need the money for a rich guy came to when you look at it you looked at his house anyone saw pictures of the's house that gave you an understanding of what houses look like in the Holocaust it didn't change you couldn't find the refrigerator he had in a museum He had milk crates as his bed milk crates you guys even know what milk crates are milk crates were his bed no joy whatsoever out of this world did not want anything to do with it someone rich person came up to him please let us redo the R's house buy the next door house buy the property make the r a nice nice house comfortable normal house stand looks why what do I need this stuff for why do I need all this what will do for me just like someone came to the said you know you're known as the yeah no well I don't know where's the the house was the furniture was the uh you know glory of the Torah how come says where's yours no I'm just visiting him from London but if you come to my house in London see have big house nice couches all types of chandeliers I'm just visiting here Sy I'm visiting here also I'm not going to be here forever I don't invest in this world you come to my house in I show you I have this that oh what why should I invest into a house going to be for a short period of time for what what for what perspective of money changes your understanding of what's valuable changes why you know you're only going to be it for a little while you're only going to be it for a little while what if you don't understand it then will force you to understand it but unfortunately it can get to a point where it's too late I'm going to tell you a real story happening as we speak some of you that have seen many of my lectures been here heard me talk to you about my cousin Shalom I didn't know him personally young kid 23 or 26 years old his father from what I know has enough money to build the country K gave them a lot of money what did he give nothing secular school for the kids wife is an atheist don't keep anything on violating the entire nothing don't keep anything zero but money they have so 2 and a half years ago 23 26 year old cousin on the second day of while the F while the parents are on vacation he goes on his scooter instead of going to the besset he goes on a scooter right outside of his Mansion falls off the scooter hits his head Hospital comes goes to the hospital do some CAT scans this scan that Scan they know the guy they know the family obviously with money everybody knows you says no you're okay everything's okay just go home and rest my cousin goes home he goes and he rests and he dies whole life was in front of him cute kid smart kid unfortunate kid didn't know what Torah was died before he even learned now that would be one of the greatest punishments that a can give a father is to see his own kid die during his life now if that didn't make the person do CH what does do what did I tell you guys many times what happens with when he says if I do something to you I give you a difficulty I give you suffering you don't do chuva guess what what are you gonna say it's nature happen stance it's a misfortune bad luck you can say that I'll punish you even worse less than six months ago his second son 48 years old found dead in the apartment found dead in the apartment here in Florida they didn't say why but anyone that has a brain can figure out why they do chva unfortunately no wife's still an atheist still keeping nothing Monday last week Sunday last week my father calls me sayson please do me a favor what please for why this morning doctor called them the father two sons died no CH yet Dr called them we're sorry you have throat cancer meaning you're pretty much living on borrowed time every day you live your it's a miracle now let me ask you question how much is a 1002 200$ 300 million a billion dollars however much money you can count how much is it worth when two of your kids die during your life and you're about to die any day how much is that worth to you how much and this is why we warn people constantly don't mess with a he said keep Shabbat keep Shabbat he said be a coer business be a coer business why you don't want to turn into my uncle he says at the end of I pay cash to my haters to their face to destroy them hey had a lot of money she has a lot of money what's that money going to do for him now zero nothing can't help him can't buy him an extra day in life can't take it TOA theim was so worried about leaving anything in this world that the in page 47a has a story about one of the greatest sages we ever had also one of the greatest B that we ever had used to be the head of the mafia became the at the end of his days he started crying moments before he left this world went to witha with the greatest of history why did he cry he said I can't believe that I left a c a few vegetables can't believe I left a few vegetables in this world I left them all of my strength I left them all of my strength people say oh no I want to save up so I could leave a big inheritance for the next generation one of the greatest sages in history says I can't believe I left a few fruits and vegetables it's all my strength so the says what's the meaning here says when somebody understands the value of tah he understands that that those fruits and vegetables the money that it took to to to you know to to pay for them that took time to make that money right that time was wasted why cuz you didn't need it you didn't need those f cuz you didn't use them somebody else going to eat from it that means that you could have used that time to learn more Tora what a waste what a waste that's the perspective of someone understand what the wise this gives us a little bit of an understanding a little bit of a of how much we have to fight fight for Tor fight fight for to a minute here five minutes there 10 minutes 20 minutes cuz that's the cure guys it's the only thing [Music]