A Great Story About The Value Of Torah (4:44 minutes)
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0:29The boy would go away for 20 years, come back as a grown man and a Torah scholar. The mother said, "Listen, he's my only boy. I can't, I can't do it. It's going to break my heart. I've been waiting for him my whole life. Let's go ask the rabbi." They go to the rabbi, and the rabbi says, "Listen, your wife is right. He's your only son. You have extra money; you're in the jewelry business. Hire a rabbi to come to your house every day and teach your son Torah." In those days, they respected the rabbi, so he did what the rabbi said. He hired a rabbi. The rabbi comes to the house and starts teaching the boy every day. Twenty years later, that rabbi goes to the father and says, "Kevodo, even though it's going to hurt my parnasa, I can't teach your son anything more. For twenty years I've been teaching him, and he knows everything I know, and probably even more. If I come here one more day, you're just wasting your money." He says, "Thank you very much for being honest. Chazak u'Baruch." The rabbi leaves, and the son is very excited. This is the first time he gets to go out of the house. For 20 years, he's only been learning Torah. It wasn't like today, where the kids are constantly outside. Back then, they would stay inside a little bit and learn some Torah. For 20 years, he's been learning Torah, and that's all he did. It's the first time he wants to go outside. He says, "Abba, I want to go to the shuk. I want to go to the market." "Go ahead, son." So the kid goes to the market. He has no concept of what the world is like.
1:57He goes to the market, he sees a lemonade stand. He says, can I have a lemonade? The guy says, sure. He gives him a lemonade. He says, five liras. He says, five liras? I don't have five liras, but I'll give you a Dvar Torah. I'll give you some chiddush about Torah. The guy snatches the lemonade from him. He says, with your Dvar Torah, get out of here. Either five liras or nothing. The kid gets so upset. He runs to the house. He takes his hat. He takes his kippah. He throws them in the house. He exclaims, "What? 20 years I spent and I wasted studying this Torah and I can't even get a cup of lemonade? Can't even get a cup of lemonade with this Torah? Abba, no more Torah for me." This Abba was pretty smart. So he said, "Okay son, what do you want to do?" He replies, "I want to be like you. I want to sell diamonds." Abba responds, "Okay." Abba goes to the safe, he opens the safe, and he says, "Son, this is my most expensive diamond. Don't sell it. Go to the same shuk, go to the same market, and get me three prices." He's so excited; he takes this big diamond and runs to the market. The first guy says 250 liras. The second guy says 500. The third guy offers 1,000.
3:11Comes to the house, he says, "Abba, I think we got him, Abba. The guy wants to give me a thousand, four times what the first guy wanted to give. We should really sell it, Abba. We shouldn't wait." Abba says, "Hold on one second. Go to a different shuk. Maybe, maybe, just maybe we can get a better price." He sends him to a different market. The first guy says, 50,000. The second guy says, 250,000. And the last guy says, half a million. The kid doesn't know what to do with himself. How could it be? Yesterday, it was worth a thousand. It was the best thing I could get. Today, 500,000. What could happen in one day? He goes back to his Abba. He says, "Abba, what happened? If you're not going to sell it for 500,000, I don't know who else you could sell it to." But anyway, what happened? How could it be? Because the first market you went to was a market for lemonade. They were selling fruits and vegetables. They didn't know anything about diamonds. So, to them, it was just a rock. It's nice, it's pretty, they'll give you a thousand. The second market, those are diamond dealers. They know what a diamond is, so they're paying you the full price. The first market you went to, they didn't know anything about Torah. So they said it's not even worth it to them; it's not even worth the lemonade. If you go to the right crowd, people that actually know what Torah is, half a million would just be the starting price. And that's the thing we have to understand: Torah is not something like math, it's not like science.
4:37It's not like any other subject. It's something extraordinary. When someone has Torah, they have everything.
