Whispers from the Antechamber of Forever

Which second of life is the most important? Is it the second that you were born into the world and your lungs were filled with oxygen, beginning your journey that they call life? Or maybe the most important second is the second when you are standing underneath the chuppah with your significant other, your life partner? Or maybe the most important, most inspiring second is the second that you are holding your child. Or maybe the most important second is the second that you actually discover that aha moment of what life is about. Friends, I like to argue that there's even a more important second than all of those aforementioned examples, and it comes based on a talk given by the brilliant Talmud Chacham and Galdor Abirisman. He was Medaic. He read critically the words the famous Mishnah and Avost, that this world is a vestibule in front of the next world. A vestibule is a room, an anti-chamber, a foyer of sorts that stands in front of a great larger room where the ultimate goal will be accomplished, and Khazal are seeking to tell us that this world is a place of preparation. But Abirisman pointed out that they didn't just say that, that this world is a place of preparation, but they gave us architectural blueprints to give over this message, and it could be to tell us that it makes a lot of sense why the Gemara says that even if a person has been religious and steadfastly kept God's mitzvahs for 70 years, but if at the end he falls off the bandwagon, well then his Yarde Duma doesn't work out well for him in the big dance in the next world. But if a person should struggle for 70 years trying to straighten his tie in the anti-chamber, trying to prepare himself, but it's just taking such a long time, he's still struggling. It's all okay If that last second before he's invited into the grand ball he has straightened his tie, fixed up his hair and made himself presentable when he walks in the olamabah. So the most important second of our lives is the very last second. It's our job to spend our days preparing for the very last second of our lives.