If you were gifted $86,400, you’d probably have little difficulty knowing what to do with it. But if you were gifted 86,400 seconds, would you be as excited?

In one of the most underappreciated gifts of all time, each of us is given the gift of 86,400 seconds every single day. The gift is not transferable, and we can’t save it up. Use it or lose it. The reason we don’t make such a big deal out of this is that, whether you admit it or not, we value our money far more than we value our time.

Time is free but it’s priceless. You can’t own it but you can use it. You can’t keep it but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back. The bad news is that time flies; the good news is that you’re the pilot.

When a second cousin of ours, Rabbi Avraham Glick, was invited to move to Melbourne, Australia from Worcester, Massachusetts in the early seventies, the Rebbe told him to stay in his role as Rabbi in Worcester until after the........

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