This World Is Like A Wedding!

The g’morah says that this world is like a wedding.

But this begs to question, what is the comparison?

When one attends a wedding, it is an experience of utmost joy. Waiters are serving delicious dishes. There are cocktails, a sushi bar, spirited dancing, energized music, and nonstop socializing with friends. Guests fill the atmosphere with laughter and humor. It is lively and exciting!

However, if one returns to the hall just an hour or two after the guests depart, what would be found? Nothing!

Just a couple hours earlier, hundreds of people were hopping and bopping, chuckling, and enjoying themselves. But now, the ballroom is dark, empty, and desolate. One could hear a pin drop should they stop and listen. Moreover, there is not a hint lingering of the affair earlier that night.

So too, the g’morah relates that our world is pulsating with life, noise, and chatter. Our lives are filled with happenings with something new to appreciate or engage in. On earth, there are unceasing opportunities to grow your bank account and likewise so many more individuals waiting to impact your day. From networking to partying, dancing, socializing, and enjoying all the options of food and drink, our world is never stagnant.

Olam HaZeh can easily be compared to a wedding party. While a chasunah often feels like there is no end in sight – especially to the friends of the couple – time inevitably takes its course, and the night ultimately evaporates leaving the memories to live on forever.

Each of us have a predefined lifespan and our time to enter the World to Come might be sooner than thought. It is my brachah to our readers to have complete days until the age of 120, but I stress the amazement in the speed of life before we realize how the years have zoomed past. In the end, not one pleasure from this world will accompany us afterward. Silence will fill the void where our sense of gratification once roared as one no longer seeks to indulge in the afterlife. In Olam HaEmes, our maasim tovim, time engrossed in Torah study, and myriad of mitzvot performed are the only accompaniment necessary.

R’ Yaakov Rahimi of Lakewood, N.J. has created a storm in the Jewish world bringing back many unaffiliated young men and women to the pathways of Hashem through Chazaq, TorahAnytime, NCSY, BJX, and Partners in Torah. R’ Rahimi is a graduate of Deal Yeshiva, and learned in Beth Medrash Govoha, his hometown, becoming a very close talmid of Rabbis Yeruchem Olshin shlit”a, and Yitzchok Sorotzkin shlit”a. R’ Rahimi partook in the Sephardic halachic project Mishnah Berurah Tiferet. The rabbi can be reached at, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..