{"id":99454,"date":"2022-11-20T17:43:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T15:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=99454"},"modified":"2022-11-20T23:00:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T21:00:57","slug":"running-away-from-the-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/running-away-from-the-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Running Away from the Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was once visiting Yerushalayim when a marathon was taking place. I noticed numerous people running on and on. I asked myself, \u201cWhere are they running? Doesn\u2019t the pasuk in Tehillim (122:2) state, \u2018Our feet stood firm within your gates, O Jerusalem\u2019? In days bygone, the people would rush toward the Beit Hamikdash, where the Shechinah<\/em> was housed. But now that we no longer have the Temple, korbanot<\/em>, or the ner tamid<\/em>, where is there to run in this city of ruins? Does a marathon add to the sanctity of the city, or merely emphasize its destruction?\u201d<\/p>\n

I spent a lot of time thinking about this, trying to understand the point of the marathon. I finally came to the conclusion that there was no point at all. It is only a method of heightening materialism.<\/p>\n

Life without Torah is life without purpose. In my lifetime, I have met wealthy individuals who seemed to have satisfied all earthly lusts, but they lacked inner contentment and joie de vivre. From their well-appointed, luxurious offices, they conveyed lives of opulence and ease. But they were the number one clients of psychologists and mental health professionals.<\/p>\n

One can attain inner fulfillment only after achieving an ideal. In the life of a Jew, only involvement in Torah and performance of mitzvot will bring him true satisfaction. A life of Torah is a life with a goal, the purpose for which man was placed on this earth<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was once visiting Yerushalayim when a marathon was taking place. I noticed numerous people running on and on. I asked myself, \u201cWhere are they running? Doesn\u2019t the pasuk in Tehillim (122:2) state, \u2018Our feet stood firm within your gates, O Jerusalem\u2019? In days bygone, the people would rush toward the Beit Hamikdash, where the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":99758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mans-purpose-in-this-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}