Best Olam Hazeh - R. Don Jarashow - TorahAnytime.com

[music] >> There's a famous maaseh with the Baron Cutler that a young man came to the Baron. He was He just left the yeshiva and the young man his schedule drastically changed and he didn't have as much time and he was all concerned, what should he do? How should he do it? When should he find time for his havurah and maybe taking on a new limud and he would came to the yeshiva and he said, "Rebbe," he said, "You know me. I've been in yeshiva for so many years and what I want to I want to do the right thing. And unfortunately, my seder hayom doesn't allow me to sit with the same sked with the with the same asmadah as I was able to sit when I was in yeshiva." He said, "I have an opportunity now where I'm able to Someone offered me opportunity to learn more and [music] I really want on the one hand, but I'm really just I'm I'm worried I'm I'm worried about my olam haba cuz I really want that opportunity. I want to learn more. >> [music] >> I know that Torah mitzvot is going to get kulam, but at the same time, my olam hazeh I I I poshit I need to make a parnassah. I need to be able to finance my wife and my children. I need to make sure that the bills are paid. I don't know what to do." [music] Reb Aaron looked at him with his famous bold fiery eyes and he said to him, he said, "It's not a question." And he said, [music] "Of course, you should take that opportunity." He said, "Any concern that maybe your olam hazeh is not going to be tended to and it's only going to be your olam haba, >> [music] >> you're making a big mistake." He said, "Quite the opposite." He said, "Not only is your olam haba going to be enriched and better, but you're also going to elevate, enhance, and have the best olam hazeh as well. Why is that? Because as we just saw over here, the virtues of a talmid chacham, the lifestyle of a talmid chacham, isn't just that he's learning. Isn't that he's just [music] soaked and absorbed in the word of Hashem. But it actually [music] makes him into a different human being. Makes him into the unmistakable person, into a pleasant, sweet person that's always looking [music] to make harmony, peace, be a good husband, be a good father. When we say darkei noam, it doesn't just mean that the ways of the Torah are sweet [music] in the proverbial objective sense. It means that when a person plugs himself, connects himself to the Torah, it uplifts. It changes. And it makes the actual