Eccl 12:13
This alone is man's uniqueness.
Why is it so hard to understand that the material world is an illusion? The Rabbis offer a parable. A merchant who had
low quality merchandise knew that dissatisfied customers would return their purchases. So he traveled from city to city, to
markets where people from nearby villages would come to shop. He sold his merchandise and left town, so that when the inferiority
of his merchandise was discovered, he would be long gone.
This is what happens to people. When young, we see real value in physical pursuits. We only discover that we were deluded
after we have grown old. We are like customers who discover that they have been duped only when it is too late to do anything.
The material world is futile, but we do not discover it because "one generation goes and another comes." By the time we learn
from our experience, it is too late. The next generation repeats the mistake.
A wise person will pursue true values in life