You know what Olam Haba (the next world) is? I’ve said this many times. You know what the next world is? The next world is the only way you can live and have a house. How do you build a house? Over here, you go to Home Depot or Lowe’s, you buy bricks, you buy other things, you build a house. And in the next world, what’s the Home Depot? What’s the Lowe’s? What’s the Walmart? The Torah and the Mitzvot (commandments), the shuls, the synagogues, all the kindness, the chesed (kindness) the person does, another Mitzvah, another Mitzvah—you build another brick, another brick at Olam Haba. And Olam Haba, the next world, is forever and ever and ever. Can you imagine what forever and ever means?
Imagine you have all of Manhattan filled up with sunflower seeds all the way to the top of the Empire State Building. Imagine that. Sunflower seeds all the way to the top of the Empire State Building. And a bird, a tzipor (bird), comes once every 30 years to take one sunflower seed. How long will it take the bird to clean the whole city from all the garinim (sunflower seeds)? Many, many, many years. And even that is not forever. The next world is even longer than that. And how do you live in the next world? How do you live in Olam Haba? Only if you accomplish Torah and Mitzvot in this world. The more Mitzvot, the more Torah you accomplish, the more your Olam Haba will be—the bigger the Olam Haba will be.
In this world, a person has to hustle. Grab more Mitzvot, more Torah. Don’t fall asleep while you’re riding in the car. Remember, in this world, more Torah, more Mitzvot, don’t lose focus.