Are You Living The Purpose?

0:40whether you have stress or you don't have stress, whether you're rich or poor, whether you're righteous or wicked, all scientists and religious people can agree on one thing: when your time comes, there's nothing you can do about it. Your time comes. And everyone goes to the place where the maggots and worms eat them. But after that,

1:40Why? Steve Jobs lived a very purposeful life. He left a legacy behind. Home computers started thanks to him. iPods, iPhones, iPads, i-this, i-that. They almost gave him the letter "I". Isn't that good? No, it's not. Why? Because he's not enjoying any of it. He's dead. He's dead. He's gone. And he was an atheist. At the end of his life, he did say that he realized that there had to be more. He did some form of teshuva of his atheism. But nonetheless, yeah, that's when he got sick. That's when he realized that he's not on top of the world, that he's not G-d. But the point being is that if you came in thinking that you're going to make your mark, and that makes your life meaningful, you're wrong. You're not going to make a bigger mark than Steve Jobs. And anyone who looks at his life right now can see that he can't benefit from it. He's dead. So what if the iPhone came out? He's dead. So what if there are books written about him? He's dead. He's not enjoying it. He's not in Shemayim.

3:01enjoying it because he doesn't believe in Shamayim. He believes he's dead. So he's dead. You can't say, no, he's in Heaven looking down on us. No, he doesn't believe in it. He's dust. He believes he goes to dust. So he's dust. So that means that his whole life was completely meaningless. There's no point. But the question is, if you came here to eat, why were you born without teeth? Why does the baby come out without teeth? If your purpose in life is to come, eat, and enjoy this world, why are you coming so ill-equipped? You have no teeth. Technically, you should be born with the teeth of a lion, ready to eat anything in sight, if that's the purpose of life. If the purpose of life was for you to have money, why is the vast majority of the population in the world, seven and a half billion people in the world, the majority of them are below middle class. The majority of them are actually in poverty. Why? If you make over $300,000, which is not considered a lot of money in America, you're making more than 99% of the world. Why is the vast majority of the population in the world, seven and a half billion people, below middle class? The majority are actually in poverty. Why is this the case? If you make over $300,000, which is not considered a lot of money in America, you're making more than 99% of the world.

4:30More than 7.4 billion people you're making. Just $300,000. So if money was the real reason why we came to this world, why don't most people have money? Success, most people are not successful. Most people are just average Joes fighting to keep their job. If marriage is the reason, why are there so many singles sending me countless emails, text messages, and phone calls asking me, "Can you find me a shidduch?" Why can't so many people find somebody? I have friends from childhood; they're in their 40s now. Nice guys, nice girls, but they can't find somebody. They're looking in the wrong places, but that's a different story. Why can't they find somebody? So what? There's no purpose to their life because they can't have children? If bringing children into the world is the purpose, why do so many couples spend tens of thousands of dollars, tears, and emotional suffering to hopefully have the blessing of having a single child and still can't do it?

5:55I have a couple of students who got married; chuppah, kiddushin, everything, baruch Hashem. They can't have a child. They've been trying already for two and a half years and my heart breaks for them. So what, they all have no purpose? So they can't be. It can't be that all of these things are the purpose.