An old story comes to us from Alexander the great when conquered Persia. In the conquest, Alexander’s soldiers overran the palace of
their king, Darius. Looking for things to steal, one soldier found a leather
bag containing the crown jewels of Persia. The stones were priceless. However,
the soldier was ignorant of their value and dumped them into the garbage saving
only the leather bag.
How often in life throw away jewels and keep only the
leather bag. We do it when we embrace
pleasures of our bodies sacrificing our marriages to satisfy lust, when we
ignore our children in search of material security, when we sacrifice our souls
in our love with the world. The great
tragedies of life can be summed up like this: we threw away the jewels and kept
only the leather bag they came in.
Find Torah.
Live Torah,
Be Torah.
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