What is GAN EDEN Like?

0:06There are some books that discuss Gan Eden, even Reshit Chochmah. that has Masechet Gehinnom, also has a section in there that discusses Gan Eden, and there are other Chachamim that discuss different aspects of Gan Eden, more in the Kabbalistic world. But the reason why it's not in the basic levels of the Torah is because most people would not understand why it's even good. Like, for example, one of the things that it says we do in Gan Eden is we learn Torah. Now, a person who doesn't learn Torah in this world and doesn't understand the beauty and the delight of the Torah, might say, why would I want to go to a place where I'm reading a book all day? They don't understand that. Okay, so how do you explain to a person Gan Eden? I mean, again, you have to explain to people in their own language. So people's own language is physical pleasures. Physical pleasures. So imagine you have physical pleasures that a person has in their life. What could they be?

1:23you have the physical pleasure they get from eating delicious food. Okay, so you put that in one basket. Then you have the pleasure they get from receiving honor—people give you respect, saying, "Good job, you're the best, you're beautiful, you're smart, you know everything is good," right? Okay, so you have that in another basket. Then you have the physical pleasure from intimacy. A person has, you know, intimate relations and experiences physical pleasure from it. Okay, you put that in another box. and you know there's just a limited amount of pleasures, but nonetheless, there are different pleasures that a person has. Now, you take all those boxes and combine them into one box, right? Okay, so that's for one person. Now, that person that lives life doesn't always have this pleasure. In fact, the vast majority of his life is not that pleasure. He's alive 24 hours, and most likely he's not, you know, enjoying himself at all the vast majority of that time. You know, because he's probably asleep between 6 to 8 hours a day out of the 24. So already you've lost 25% of the day. Right? 25 to 33% of the day, it's gone already. Right? So, let's say you've got 16 hours left after you've slept. That is probably working. Between work and traveling to work, it's probably another 8 to 10 hours a day.

2:43They say, oh, no, but I like my job. Yeah, okay, buddy. You know you like your job. Would you prefer to go to your job or be on the beach or on some vacation? Okay, so you may not necessarily detest your job, but it's not a vacation. It's not a vacation. You prefer to be in other places. It's not considered as one of the pleasures of the world. Let's just say that. Let's say out of the eight to ten hours that you like your job, let's say a half hour, an hour, At most, out of those 8 to 10 hours, you feel pleasure. Okay, let's say they give you respect, you're the best, you're the best salesman, you're the best this, you're the best that. Okay, so right now, we've already spent between 16 to 18 hours out of the day, but we still only have about maybe an hour of pleasure out of that, right? Then he has, you know, he's going home, he's with his wife, you know, but they're not always together. She's not always together with her husband; he's not always together with his wife, you know. not a horse. Sometimes he's tired. Sometimes he's busy. Sometimes he has headaches. Sometimes he has a headache for a really long time, like years. But it's sometimes, you know, it's a different thing. So the reality of the pleasure is not always there, right? So it's...

3:54the food, also, the food is not always delicious. Sometimes it tastes like a shoe, and sometimes it tastes like a table. Sometimes you wish you would have ordered Chinese food. Sometimes, you know, it's not always that good. So, in reality, out of the 24 hours, you're lucky if you get an hour and 15 minutes, two hours max of actual pleasure, max. Does that mean really less than ten percent, at best case scenario, ten percent of a person's life, at the best case scenario, is actual pleasure? So if he lived a hundred years, ten years was pleasure at the best case scenario. In reality, it's much less. But let's say, okay... Now, I'm not trying to depress you. I'm just telling you reality. This is how life really is. Now, let's say you took all 10 years of pleasure, all 10%, and you gave it to the person in one shot. Boom! That's a lot of pleasure, right? Imagine all of the crazy stuff and experiences and deliciousness and good stuff that he had over a period of time. Okay, it's a little bit here, a little bit there, a little bit over here. But if you gave it to him in just one jolt,

5:12It's 10 years straight of pleasure that's going to end, right? Okay, so yeah, now you put that 10 years in a box, right? We're talking about 10 years now. We'll put all that pleasure from one lifetime, from one person, into one box. That's a lot of pleasure. Now, take not just his pleasure, not just all of his family's pleasure, not just all of his neighborhood's, and his town's, and his city's, and his state's, and his country's, but rather the entire world's pleasure. During that generation, you've got, let's say, right now, close to 8 billion people, right? 8 billion people. Take all of their pleasure. Some of them are going to live until 100, some of them are going to live until 3, some of them are going to live until 50. Everybody's pleasure. Let's say, well, you know, a 10% average. everybody's pleasure, put it in the box, combine it with that other box. That's a lot of pleasure. Imagine creating all that pleasure for all eight billion people in one shot. It's a lot of pleasure. Okay, now it's not enough. Take not just that generation, but every single generation that ever existed from the beginning of time, including the generation of the Flood, where they had all types of horrific pleasures, all types of crazy things.

6:30Immoral things that unfortunately are coming back to life today also. Sodom and Gomorrah's generation. Noah's generation. The Tower of Babel generation. Egypt's generation. All of the sinful generations. Obviously, they probably had more physical pleasures in the world than the standard. Take all of their pleasures from all of the generations. Just the pleasures. No suffering. Just the pleasure of all of them. Put them in a box together with that other generation. Another box. Now you've got a lot. Imagine a person gets all of that pleasure. That's a lot of pleasure, right? That pleasure from all of the generations of all of the people that ever lived is not a single minute of the pleasure that a righteous Jew will experience in Gan Eden. That's Gan Eden, in a way that we can understand.

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