There was once a lottery in NJ that kept getting bigger and bigger until it reached $41 million dollars. When they announced the winning number, no one came to claim it. Week after week, month after month, still no one came forward to claim the prize. It was decided that if no one came to claim the prize, then the city where the ticket was bought would get the money. The city was so excited at the expected winfall when suddenly the night before it would go to the city a letter came in claiming the prize. When they asked the winner, "why did you put off claiming your prize" he said , well I was busy with this and that and I figured I would get around to it soon, then before I knew it, it was almost to late"
We are like that man. We have a change to claim our portion of eternity, which is worth much more then $41 million dollars, and yet we are busy with this and that. This is the true churbon inside of us, that we don't realize our potential, and how much nitzchius (eternity) we can claim from our mitzvot. We have to do Teshuva now and claim our portion of Olam Haba.
A true story told by Rebbetzin Kalmonovitz in a Shiur Today.
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