Was It Wasted Time? - R. Elazar Meisels - TorahAnytime.com

said this over wrote down his form said this over when he learned in roden he learned in roden together with he said they were learning I don't know if this was als I I don't know the timeline he says one time they were learning and they needed to learn they needed to look up something in a certain safer they didn't have the safer they figured for sure has a safer how do they know has a safer because In safer in Mishna it quotes the safer many many times. So he must have had the safer because otherwise where would he know what it says in order to quote for it. So they went to they asked him if he has to say he says no. He saw that they're very puzzled. So he asked them so they said because the rebi quotes it innu the rebi doesn't own a copy. He said no when I was writing Mishna Bur all of the swarm that I needed I borrowed from somebody and then when I was done writing Mishna Bur I got what I needed. I gave it back. He saw that they were very very confused. Wow. Rebi doesn't have this. He says no. Listen to the he says I am not on the swarm that I don't have. I have pain from the swarm that I do have. Said I have pain. What pains me is not the swarm I don't have. What pains me is the swarm I do have. You imagine that says the swarm I have caused me. not the swarm I don't have. So they asked him what does Rabbi mean by that? What could be wrong with having swarm? So the kind very simple. He says to have a safer means you have to have money to purchase a safer. Where would you have money to purchase a safer from? The says you had to work to earn the money to be able to purchase a safer. Will you or won't you learn from it? How much will you learn from it? Who knows? But this I can tell you you spent a lot of time working to be able to purchase a safer. All of that time could have been used to collect swarm in your cup in your head. You're giving away in order for the for the ability to perhaps maybe get a safer that could perhaps give you more. He says the swarm I have which all took me time to earn the money those are the ones I have problems with the ones I don't have no problem with whatever I have in my head I have in my head said I want to tell you this is gammor says when rishlash was nif he left over for his the great rishlash this was the man who was a bandit a bandit means he was stealing he was collecting he was he was earning a lot he had a lot of maz's fingertips when rish luckish was nifter you know what he left over for his he left over a cav of which is a type of a spice from was a now you might think well done I did well no he didn't say that you know what he said there's a leave over for others their strength tough time. What do you mean? Why are you feeling bad? You left over for others, your strength, a little bit of spice. This is your gi and you're feeling bad that you left it over for your kids. What does that mean? Lakish valued every second. He valued every minute. Valued every second. Every second was an opportunity to go get more. If he had a C of spice that ended up not getting used, that meant that the time he spent earning the money to buy THAT THING OF SPICE didn't earn him the the he could have had. Yeah, that's something to cry over when you're ashlakish.