Facing Reality or Living It Up In Your Imagination

all right so tonight's topic is Imagination I'll explain to you how this is very interesting Torah concept the gar in chabas says that there's an argument between the tanama and Ruda about whether you're allowed to give a non- kosher grasshopper to a child to play with this back in the day when grasshoppers were snacks you know and if it was a kosher grasshopper so Tac says you can give it to a child because it's aive grasshopper now if it dies he can eat it as a snack it's not a problem because you can't give him a not Kosher grasshopper to play with even if it's alive because if it dies he'll eat it and you're basically being Mak and eating TR rabuda says you're allowed to give him even a trafe grasshopper to play with not a problem so asks what about SOA says no you're not Mak you know why cuz if the grasshopper dies he's going to be masit the grasshopper he's going to say hpit on the grasshopper it's going to be grassy me and you we we could have conquered the world together you know we we could have been such good friends for so many years and now look what happened you're all smooshed by mistake you know he's going to M him he's not going to eat him he feels bad for him he has Deus he has an imagination this child you know kids have an amazing imagination desler in in in the beginning of M it's page 99 in the first he says a Ranter said that if you take away a toy from a child it's like you're taking away a factory from an adult say if a child is playing with a toy boat he says he's like the captain of that boat that's what he thinks you know he's Mish thinking about himself sailing the high seas you know and if you take away his boat it's like you took and drown the boat of an adult so if death is making this point in order to say you know obviously that children have a very VI vivid imagination but the truth is is actually much more than that he said adults have even a bigger imagination than that and how does that manifest itself he says that when an adult knows that mitos and Torah is you know the important thing in life right and he needs to have cover in order to do Tor and mitz so he says why does he need the cavod he needs people to like show him that it's really worth something so that means he says that the adult doesn't really believe so much in the value of tournaments for example let's say Bill Gates Right Bill Gates has I what does he have but you know hundreds of billions of dollars I don't know how much he has right does he need someone to tell him that he's Rich he doesn't need someone to tell him that he's Rich he knows that he's Rich right Mr gat you're rich be like yes I know right what's the point of saying that right everybody knows that so if somebody knows that he is constantly doing T mitzvos and he understands the value of Tor mitos why do you need outside approbation and honor for doing that you already inherently have it always need encourage say so so there are people that need encouragement but why do they need encouragement that's the question meaning let me ask a question if somebody said listen I have a job now I'm going to make a million dollars an hour for the next 10 hours do I need encouragement to do that job no why because I I clearly know that I'm making a fortune right so people need encouragement often times when they're not really sure what they're doing is so valuable if Des says the amount that a person needs honor to do tan mitzvos is exactly proportionate to his lack of appreciation of T mitzvas now it doesn't mean that it's user to give somebody honor for doing teros for sure not it's M for sure we definitely do that and we put people's names on buildings and we you know definitely uh will definitely help somebody have honor and give them a plaque and whatever it is you know but the question is why does a person need thatan you want to honor their parents who donated a building that's great you know but why do they need their name to be on buildings and to get covered and stuff it's because the value the covero more so he says that you know a person gets very into the things in this world even though they really as a Torah Jew know that's not what's important people are very wealthy right says often times they have you know friends who are just there because they're wealthy they're not friends with you know them their friends with their money basically right that's what they're interested in so he said and these people a lot of them even know that these wealthy people they know lot of them that that their friends are friends because of their money and yet they keep on playing the game why cuz their imagination tells them that let's pretend that I have friends real friends the story of somebody whose wife once picked up on this that you know became very wealthy also he had a lot of friends so she said you know what they're here just for your money and she said like no what do you mean they're good people down said she said listen let's just tell everybody you're bankrupt to see what happens so they told everybody that he's bankrupt they didn't come to his house anymore besides the same friend that used to come when he wasn't in money you know so people like to Deus right they like to get the fast cars and the big houses and they all know if they're from Jews they can't take it with them right they all know if they're from Jews that warning Torah for an hour is worth much more than that right but they kind of like to fool themselves and put themselves in their toys of again cars yachts whatever fancy stuff they like to be into because they don't want to really face right what life is all about you know when someone is very into Torah and they realiz realize the value of Torah so you don't give value to all these external things stir with Ayman how a rich person came to Aran and said you know he's scared of ir so said why I'm very wealthy and I have so much money and I have nice houses and cars and people are jealous of me and Shaman said do you know shots and he said no you know half of Shas said no said so why would people be jealous of you like what do you have I mean like want to drive your Tesla into the cev like what what what what do you what's the point like what's the what's the point you know you can go fast you accelerate very fast all of a sudden you know like what what are you emphasizing in life you know what I mean it's like do we believe T if we do we should keep warning Torah right because that's what's wealthy I'll tell you the truth it's little of a personal story I'll say think go tell us I'll say it right is that when I was younger uh and I was getting married so I was supposed to go to law school I was accepted to law school already and wife said you know you always good at learning why don't you try to you know learning C for to but you know try it out so I said okay and I tried it I'm still here you know 29 years later but really in the beginning I made a very selfish I'll tell you the truth to be honest iisten why do I want to be a lawyer because I want to have a fancy house want to have nice cars have a swimming pool you know so I said okay how long is that going to be for 80 years if I'm lucky let's say right and what abouta that is eternity right do you know how long eternity is right there's a famous musall they say from could be anybody that if the entire world was grains of sand and a bird came and every 10 ,000 years he would take one grain of sand and transport it to a different planet every 10,000 years one grain of sand then eternity would still be just getting started after the entire world was transported that's a long time so I was thinking to myself listen I could either go for the fancy house and Swinging pool and Tesla and stuff back then there wasn't Tesla right Porsche whatever was you know for you know for 80 years right for 80 years I could try to get eternity and investing in eternity every word of Torah you say is a massive Mitzvah and doing that every day for eight hours I'd rather have that great house in alaba for eternity than have a house in this world for 80 years it was just a very simple selfish kman right I me hopefully I got a little in eventually too right but it's just one of the things if you know this so why why wouldn't you sit and learn why wouldn't you you know the towards the end of the safer he says he knows some people that they're they're embarrassed to their friends if they start sending warning all day like oh you became a FY you became a from guy you're now just rning T all day and he said for this person if you'd have a little bit of he would have such a great Oma he have just a little bit of to be able to tell his friends I don't care what you think I want to serve hasem this omab will be so much greater so we really have to try to understand try to you know not get carried away by the imaginary trappings of goshas of this world and try to focus the main part of our day you know on Ras and you know person has to work they can have kavana to do the mitvah parasa you know is also a Mitzvah people they're working are doing with other people have mind MIT you know there's a lot of mitzah person do on his work day too but when he doesn't have to work the more he can maximize learning Torah that that's a tremendous savings plan for like I said eternity it's a very long time eternity want to have a savings plan people have retirement plans all the time in this world right re plans yeah Mak sense you got think about retirement you got a plan you got to save away money right but what about Oma like Eternal savings plan right the most important one got to make sure that you don't neglect that so we should to keep on doing a lot of a lot of uh MIM and uh you know focus on what's real in this world and not get carried away by our imagination