Torah Illuminated Series: Parshas Chayei Sarah - Rebbi Akiva and the Value of Every Moment of Life

foreign tells us in the beginning of Sarah the students began to fall asleep wanted to wake them up so we keep up posed the following question why was Esther zeika to rule over 127 medinais um said rabi Akiva in the Merit of her righteous ancestors Sarah who lived 127 righteous years her descendant Esther was to rule over 127 provinces as the hidush what exactly is so interesting about this teaching about this Russia that it Rabbi Akiva hoped that this would wake up his tummy then I mean if I was tired and I heard that maybe I would be out cold what is exactly is so interesting about this structure of rabikiva and explained and this is quoted by the premium that review was teaching a very important lesson the point he was making is that if in the Merit of a righteous year of the life of Sarah Esther ruled over a Medina a whole province that means then the Merit of a month of Sarah's life Esther must have ruled over an entire state and that means in the Merit of a day of Sarah's life Esther ruled over an entire Borough which means in the Merit of an hour of Sarah's life Esther ruled over a city and the Merit of a minute of Sarah's life Esther ruled over a whole neighborhood and in the Merit of even a second of Sarah's life Esther rolled over an entire block look how valuable every moment is look what one could accomplish in a moment if in the Merit of one moment of sora's Life Esther ruled over a whole block look at the value of time yukaris has none how precious every moment is every second is valuable my dear students if you doze off if you fall asleep you could lose out a moment of Tyra how valuable every moment of life is this was the lesson that Ravi Kiba was teaching his tummy them you think if you just allow yourself to be distracted allow yourself to doze off it's not a big deal you're only losing out a moment or two no every moment of life is so valuable now it's interesting that it's Eva that teaches his students the value of time why rabi Akiva of all the great tanayam why is it rabi Akiva is the one to teach the value of time so there's an amazing Remus an amazing teaching of ramam mipano ramipano is one of the great Italian mikubalem he was a student of a student at the Ariza he was a student of rabistro saruk who was a student at the Ari and the Rama mipano reveals in a safer called yoinas Elam that the word Akiva is it's an acronym it's a rashe Teva it's Akiva stands for one can acquire the world to come in one moment that was the meaning of the name of Akiva that's the hidden remiss in the name Akiva in fact writes that even if Akiva is spelled Ayan base hey it still stands for yes let's think for a moment why is the name Akiva we know a name captures the essence of something why is the essence of rabi Akiva the value of time and the answer is let's think about the life of rabi Akiva until age 40 he was in amharas he said like a donkey how is he able to elevate himself so greatly in the remaining years of life from age 40 to age 120. Rabbi Akiva had to make up for lost time and therefore of all the time it was a take advantage of every moment of life he had no time to waste and therefore his name captured the essence of this message Akiva yes who teaches his tamidam the value of time that if in the Merit of every righteous year of Sarah Esther ruled over a province then in the Merit of every moment of Sarah's life Esther was zohat to something significant how important every moment of life is one can acquire in one moment wishing everyone [Music]