Shabbat Beyachad

This past weekend my whole section (150 people) had the option of spending Shabbat together – about 110 came. Year Course planned a nice weekend for us in Northern Israel. We stayed in the hotel section of a Kibbutz near Mt Hermone - the only ski spot in all of Israel. I decided not to go snowboarding because it was expensive and the snow in Tahoe is way better. So I spent Friday playing in the snow with my friends. We went sledding and threw some snowballs. They had this awesome rollercoaster/toboggan thing. It was like a mini rollercoaster that went really fast down a snowy hill. It was super fun! Two people to a toboggan - I went once with Ilana (Seattle) and once with Hayley (Houston).

On Saturday after optional services – I opted to sleep – we had optional learning sessions, which I did attend. We had a great discussion about time. I would like to share a hand out that they gave us with you:

Imagine that there is a bank that every morning gives you $86,400, but the money doesn’t flow to the next day. Every night, whatever you didn’t spend during the day disappears. So what do you do?!?! Spend it all of course!!

Each one of us has this bank. This bank is called TIME.
Each morning we get 86,400 seconds. Every night whatever we didn’t use gets lost. If you didn’t use the seconds, its your loss. You cant go back, you cant use the time the next day.

To appreciate a year – ask a student who had to stay back a year in school.
To appreciate a month – ask a mother who gave birth a month early.
To appreciate a week – ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.
To appreciate a hour – ask two lovers who are waiting to meet.
To appreciate a minute – ask the person who just missed the train/bus.
To appreciate a second – ask the person who almost got in a car crash.
To appreciate a millisecond – ask the runner that won the silver medal.

Understand the meaning of every moment and cherish it. Remember that time is not waiting for you. Yesterday is history. Today is a gift – that is why its called the PRESENT.