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"In Jewish tradition there is a saying that during our lifetimes we have three main friends - and when we die they leave us in exactly the reverse order in which we treated them.
No sooner does our soul leave our body than all of our wealth flees with it as well. Families are more faithful. They walk with us after our passing to the cemetery, our final resting place. Then, they too leave us to go on with their lives.
It is only our name, the good deeds we performed for others, and the influence we may have had upon them, that outlive us and offer us a share of immortality.
Strange then, that we spend most of our lives chasing after money, spending far less of our time than we should with our families, and spending so little of our efforts to accomplish those things by which we will be remembered."
--Rabbi Benjamin Blech
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