The Man Who Sold His "World To Come"

The great inaliv brings an interesting story of a person who in his town was known as a big sadik. He was well known for being porish from Mahazi. He separated himself from all the desires of this world. And one time one of the big vim a very very wealthy man of the time made a deal with him to buy half of his haba. He paid him 22,000 rubles for half of this person's oil was which was an exorbitant sum of money literally in the millions and millions of dollars of the time. It was a very large sum of money and it was worth it for him to get this great sadik in Abba after he paid half of the he gave him a down payment half you know until he gets the other half I guess when he's dead but anyways he gave him a half down payment in the beginning and then a week later he went to a makubul the rich person went to a mubal who looked in a dream and this I guess he looked in his magical crystal ball and he told them that the person that you gave all this money to in order to buy is not such a big tadik after all. He gives off such an impression. People think so, but you should know behind the scenes. I don't know. He's not something to write home about. Don't talk to me about I'm reading to you from a chuva. After the rich person heard this, he was very perturbed. He was very upset about what happened. And he went back and demanded his 11,000 ruble back. And I'm being tell the whole deal. I want to nullify the whole deal. The other guy on the other hand said, "What are you talking about? You owe me 11,000 rubble. You only gave me half the money and we have a deal and you are required to give it all to me now. I refuse to have any type of backing out of this very important deal. You're lucky to get half of my oil." The nie was sent this question in the tube over there in Simmon Dalin. And the nitiv said, "I don't understand why you had to go to a makubal to figure out this guy was a phony." What are you talking about? The guy is a doto brain. Nobody sells his every second that you have up there is a second that's split forever. Every piece of han is something that lasts forever. In this world when you have hana it is it's quick and temporary because you eat it and after a few chips of eating it you're already dissatisfied. You don't have the same an you had on that first piece that first lick of the ice cream is nothing compared to the bottom because when you get used to all type of tavot in the next world all the that you have is forever and it's and it lasts with that initial burst of flavor and you're selling it for a million trillion dollars. It's pennies. You're selling it for pennies. How do I know that this person is a phony? So he brings from our para over here in paras told us where of course we know as of made a mockery of the firstborn rights by selling it to Jacob forim for just a bunch of food and he even brings from the purist of the rajbam the grandson of rashi of course the one who was a purist of many places in chass and over there the rajbam says that he actually paid him money for it the opinion was done. The acquisition was done through the medium of the food. But he actually paid him proper money and still the Torah says that it was a you're making fun of the so he says it's nothing to do with the amount that he spent for the Bakar. It's the fact that he gave money over for how can you do such a ridiculous thing. What are you an asov? only as does some things and that's considered a mis and therefore he says this person is an absolute phony and you can get out of the deal how can you do that he also brings of course the famous from where he was incredibly incredibly poor they were mish starving and then a golden leg fell down from the sky and we all know that his wife went and threw it back up to the sky because she knew that that was going to be removed from one of the legs of his table in Aaba and obviously this temporary world is not worth it for the next world. So we have an incredible chuva over there from the over there. He goes with a back and forth if it's possible to sell your he actually says when it comes to Torah so that is already an acquisition. It's like becoming a general. I can't give someone over the position of being a general. He says a mitzvah is like a badge of honor. I did a mitzvah gets. So maybe that you might be able to sell. And even that he has a long pull there saying you can't even sell such a thing because it is something esoteric. It is something that's not physical. I can only sell things which have some type of tangibility to that and therefore this sale does not work. Of course, there is a question because the gumarin does say a very interesting gumar that if I steal a mitzvah from you, if you're about to do a and I PUSH YOU, GET OUT OF HERE, and I go ahead and do the quick chop before you manage to do it. So, I have to pay you by stealing your mitzvah. I have to pay you aim which we made at the time was a few tens of thousands of dollars. I have to pay you for stealing a mitzvah. So there and it is brought in and so there is such a concept as stealing a mitzvah and paying for it but that could be just like a kas a fine this is the back and forth that goes over there and anyways he basically says the sale is invalid. It's not something that could be sold and therefore it is not much. However, what we do see from the words of the nitiv is the incredible value of a mitzvah. Every little mitzvah that we do, of course, you've heard and everything about how great they are, but when you see the the comes out of it, you realize, wow, if I had the winning lottery ticket, I'm not going to get to the billions. Let's say you have $500,000 winning lottery ticket. Something somewhat realistic. Although, maybe a little bit realistic. 500,000. But I tell you, I the only way you're going to have to do it is you have to travel. It's going to take you a few days. It's by buggy. I don't let you go by plane and you have to do it. It's going to be a schle. You have to take off from work a couple weeks to be able to get there and then cash in the ticket, come back, and then eventually you gave $500,000. Everyone will do it. And you'll be smiling and whistling the whole way there and back. Am I correct? For those that appreciate $500,000, you want a million, I'll give you a million. Go ahead, take it. Just like you would do it there. Thi sit and think about the value of a mitzvah. The beauty of a mitzvah. And sometimes we slept and when it gets a little bit hard, we kick it over. It's too hard for me to make it to minion. It's a little bit too hard to be able to do. You put on the trill and you take it off about halfway through David. You're not leaving it on to the last minute. And cost because I got to go. I have a business meeting. When you realize the value of a mitzvah and how much it's worth over 22,000 rubles, you'll make sure not to mak. you're going to make sure to hold on to it. This also explains the famous question, why was this not called a mecca? Why was this not a big mistake? This whole deal as got upset because it's not fair. You sold me for a pot of lentils some some uh which is worth a lot. Why is it not called a a mistake? The answer is, as we see in front of us, something is as valued as you give it. The amount of value that you put into something, that's how much it's worth. For Asov, it was worth a bowl of lentils. I'm hungry. I care about the here and now. His name is Asui. He's made. He's not one for thinking about next worlds and futures. I just need the here and now, the present, the tavot, immediate gratifications. And therefore it was worth it the deal for him as opposed to for Jacob. Of course we knew it was the other way around that theor was worth much more to him than the adashim and we understand that it all depends on that. This this also answers a question I've received this a number of times and you should know the in gumul answers this I spoke about this in my afterlife shimm and that is we all know that a a person who is a rash hashem gives him his payment in this world. All the good things he does, he gets paid in this world and in the next world he gets smacked across the face heavy duty and they go through a difficult time. Why does it sad go through a difficult time? Cuz in this world he gets paid for his a but in the next world he's going to be sitting pretty sitting hunky dory. Things are going to be alme he's going to be sitting on cloud nine not literally [clears throat] and it's not fair. Why is that? that the rash will come and complain and say, "Why'd you do this to me? I I I I don't understand. Why am I sitting here in Gam just because why' you treat me like this? Why'd you give me all the good stuff?" So the answer is the same exact answer. You get what you want. You get what you appreciate. What's your scar? What's your reward? Your reward is what you think is reward. If a person is a Russia, he loves Maz. That's what he's chasing for his focus on the immediate gratification. How can I satisfy my lusts and desires? Now, the more I get in my mouth or in my in my in my interests, the more I feel saturated, satisfied, delivered, happy, the glee kicks in, right? And therefore, Hashem says, "That's what you want. You got it, baby. That's it's all yours." And therefore, which is not so meaningful to him obviously that's he's going to get what the leftover is from what he did as opposed to by the sadik which we know he sits and appreciates he cherishes the next world and everything that it has to offer and he sacrifices this world for the sake of that. So therefore Hashem says you know what I'll deliver to you all your affairs in this world so you can appreciate the reward which you really are searching and yearning for. This is what we learn from this transaction between Asov and this interchange between the nitiv and this person who was a phony. And with that I also want to finish up and mention an interesting uh phenomenon an interesting idea which I one time saw and that is a misa that happened with Ravdavid [clears throat] Ravdavid Edelman and this is what happened with this person. He was a certain ro that he was a big mccarokim in the past uh past a couple decades ago and many people would stand up many times and deny when he's proving about they would deny it and this and he say you're positive some would say well I'm not sure but I don't think so and I don't want to bank on it so he says is there anyone in this room he says all Jews believe in alabi can anyone in this room raise their hand and say 100% I think it's a complete farce always there's some guy that's going to raise his hand. There's always one of those. He raises his hand and he says, "Great. So, you don't believe in all says the whole thing is a jo Jewish hoax like all your it's a it's a big phony." So, he says, "No problem. I'm with you. Come up to the stage." He gets out a piece of paper and he starts writing a contract and he says to the guy, "Okay, here we go. $5,000." He puts the bills on the table. $5,000 with the rubber band, all $100 bills. Here's $5,000. I'm writing a contract. Sell me your alam haba. Whatever haba you have, which is probably not that much for this guy. Here's $5,000. I'll take your alamhaba and let's do it. HE GOES, "WHAT? You joking? You really believe in this stuff?" Yeah. Yeah. Let's go. Let's go. I'm signing it. I'm here. I am. I sign the paper. YOU SAY, "COME ON." He pushes the paper away. He says, "This happens over and over again." I don't deal with the What are you doing this? He says, "HERE'S THE CATCH. SMELL IT. It's real dollar bills fresh out of the bank. Quitty, I'm not faking you. Not counterfeit. This is the real thing. Five. It's free money, right? Free money. Sign the paper. I'm just giving mom is handing you free money. Who who who runs away from free money. Says enough with your your I don't have patience for you. And that's it. And the guy walks away. He pushes it away and he goes back to the audience to go. He says, you see, everybody believes in Mava. The guy's turning down free money. Obviously this whole this whole play that he was doing is just a big the yid within himself always has it within himself and that's what the kavala points out here we have it as selling the bkar happy goes back out to the field he does what he does but as we know at the end of the para what did he does he lets out a big scream and he says don't you have a braha left for me come on give me something you want a braha what's a braha got to do has it has nothing to do with anything. What do you care about blessings, buddy? What do you care? You care about women. You care about money. You care about tyas. That's what you care about. What? I don't understand. What's the business? The answer is that every has within them that wants it. There's no one that doesn't really believe that there's an oil. They know it's there. And of course, we have this Yates that pushes us sometimes in the wrong directions and tries to convince us here and there to make us feel better. But if you think about it to the end of the day, you'll never find a person that doesn't push back that contract. Just like Asa was screaming the Zakda, the guy who walked up on stage was also screaming a Zakda. They don't they're not willing to concede. And we'll end with this last story about a true ma that happened here in one of the wars approximately 15 years ago. There was a there was a soldier that that that died that got killed in the battlefield in the battlefield and they were on the verge of burying him in there's a in the graveyard where all the are buried when they died al kesm however when they looked into the yus they realized that this guy is a his mother was actually not Jewish he was not Jewish and therefore many of the people that were pushing to put him on the outskirts of the graveyard because you know in a Jewish graveyard you can't really bury a in the same place and there was a big back and forth until he ended up really being on the outskirts of the graveyard and in the Knesset as we all know over there the congress over here where they like to be labed they like to jump up and down there was a lot of screaming back and forth until one super leftist stood up and he said I don't understand what all the screaming about anyways there's no life after death who cares where the guy's buried what difference it makes just bury buried in the ground like a donkey. Just like every dog that you throw into your kever and every cockroach that you flush down the toilet. So this guy's buried into the he's buried into the he's buried into the ground. What is the big deal? So the person who was standing there said to you seems to hear that Israel the rest of even Medina is even the non-religious disagree with you. Everyone believes everyone believes sort of speaking about one way or the other. We just got to coke some and realize and appreciate the beautiful and luscious mitzvah that we had that were able to do and earn that tremendous will get a lot more than 22,000 rubles.