Leaving EVERYTHING for Torah - R. Aharon Pessin - TorahAnytime.com

There was a guy who once came to Zats and he told him you know my father at the age of 50 just dropped it all decided to leave everything. He had a very prestige career very very successful honor fame tons of money and at the age of 50 my father day and night he sits and learns day and night he left it all. He left everything and he's just sitting he's so committed to Toyota. It's amazing to see and he thought is going to be impressed and he doesn't look impressed at all. So he tells him again, I'm telling you, my father at the age of 50, the heights of his career, he's so successful. He lives it all and he just sits and learns day and night. The rabbi is not impressed. Says to him, "You keep saying that your father left it all. He had everything and I'm telling you he had nothing and now he has it all." The question is in the first 30 years of his life, his career from 20 to 50, why was he involved in nothing instead of being involved in everything. I think similarly sometimes we hear about people who make aliyah and the guy comes and tells you you know what I left behind I had it all. I didn't have a house. I had an estate 15 cars indoor and outdoor pools tennis courts. You think you had two saunas? 15 sonas I left it all to come down to you didn't leave it all you left the nothing now you have it all imagine about a person who sits and learns to he has double