{"id":88,"date":"2012-10-04T08:43:37","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T08:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/kabbalahcounseling\/?p=88"},"modified":"2012-10-04T08:43:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T08:43:37","slug":"is-a-diamond-really-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kabbalahcounseling\/2012\/10\/is-a-diamond-really-forever.html","title":{"rendered":"IS A DIAMOND REALLY FOREVER?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week we discussed the manner in which many of us get distracted from our goal of achieving the ultimate in life and wind up putting our focus and energies into building that which is temporary and trivial.<\/p>\n

In fact, there was recently an eruption of applause in Geneva\u2019s Beau Rivage Hotel\u00a0as a prominent London-based jeweler broke the record for the world\u2019s largest buy in an auction at $46,158,674.<\/p>\n

And what did he buy with this sum of money that could have fed a country\u2019s worth of impoverished?<\/p>\n

A diamond. It was pink.<\/p>\n

Congratulations.<\/p>\n

And guess whose record he broke with this large sum.<\/p>\n

Yes, you guessed it \u2013 his own.<\/p>\n

A little while ago this same character bought a different rock at a different auction for $34 million.<\/p>\n

In this buyer\u2019s case, I think it is fair to say that we are not talking about merely living in luxury and with added comforts. And don\u2019t assume this is purely for investment purposes either. In the case of this jeweler, we are talking about something much deeper. There is a search for meaning going on here; for that which goes on and is everlasting; for eternity.<\/p>\n

By attempting to replace God with rocks, this jeweler thinks that he will satisfy the passion for growth, ascendance, and elevation that burns within him \u2013 but, of course, that will not do the trick. And, deep down, he knows this to be true.<\/p>\n

While he may be able to create a lasting name for himself and leave behind a legacy for generations, all the rocks, stones, boulders, and pebbles on the planet could never be a substitute for one\u2019s inherent personal value and ultimate worth. Compared to that, showboating the value of a rock collection as if it is something of essential, objective meaning is like Coca-Cola \u2013 a prime example of an artificial product \u2013 advertising itself as the Real Thing.<\/p>\n

Rabbi Eliyahu Yaakov<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>a cutting edge\u00a0international\u00a0speaker on Kabbalah, relationships, parenting, and life, and the author of the #1 Amazon\u2019s Best Seller,\u00a0Jewish By Choice: A Kabbalistic Take on Life & Judaism<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n

Rabbi Eliyahu is scheduled to be in North America on November 5-22. To book a presentation, email rey@getyourjewon.com<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"
\n<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week we discussed the manner in which many of us get distracted from our goal of achieving the ultimate in life and wind up putting our focus and energies into building that which is temporary and trivial. In fact, there was recently an eruption of applause in Geneva\u2019s Beau Rivage Hotel\u00a0as a prominent London-based…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":506,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nIS A DIAMOND REALLY FOREVER? - Kabbalah Counseling<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kabbalahcounseling\/2012\/10\/is-a-diamond-really-forever.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"IS A DIAMOND REALLY FOREVER? - Kabbalah Counseling\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Last week we discussed the manner in which many of us get distracted from our goal of achieving the ultimate in life and wind up putting our focus and energies into building that which is temporary and trivial. In fact, there was recently an eruption of applause in Geneva\u2019s Beau Rivage Hotel\u00a0as a prominent London-based…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kabbalahcounseling\/2012\/10\/is-a-diamond-really-forever.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Kabbalah Counseling\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-10-04T08:43:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/endoftheworld.net\/Jesus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/beautiful_diamond-300x225.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"eyaakov\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"IS A DIAMOND REALLY FOREVER? - Kabbalah Counseling","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kabbalahcounseling\/2012\/10\/is-a-diamond-really-forever.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"IS A DIAMOND REALLY FOREVER? - Kabbalah Counseling","og_description":"Last week we discussed the manner in which many of us get distracted from our goal of achieving the ultimate in life and wind up putting our focus and energies into building that which is temporary and trivial. In fact, there was recently an eruption of applause in Geneva\u2019s Beau Rivage Hotel\u00a0as a prominent London-based…","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kabbalahcounseling\/2012\/10\/is-a-diamond-really-forever.html","og_site_name":"Kabbalah Counseling","article_published_time":"2012-10-04T08:43:37+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/endoftheworld.net\/Jesus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/beautiful_diamond-300x225.jpg"}],"author":"eyaakov","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kabbalahcounseling\/2012\/10\/is-a-diamond-really-forever.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kabbalahcounseling\/2012\/10\/is-a-diamond-really-forever.html","name":"IS A DIAMOND REALLY FOREVER? - Kabbalah Counseling","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kabbalahcounseling\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kabbalahcounseling\/2012\/10\/is-a-diamond-really-forever.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kabbalahcounseling\/2012\/10\/is-a-diamond-really-forever.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/endoftheworld.net\/Jesus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/beautiful_diamond-300x225.jpg","datePublished":"2012-10-04T08:43:37+00:00","dateModified":"2012-10-04T08:43:37+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kabbalahcounseling\/#\/schema\/person\/0145df9eb3f314357485846fb6645cf6"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kabbalahcounseling\/2012\/10\/is-a-diamond-really-forever.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kabbalahcounseling\/2012\/10\/is-a-diamond-really-forever.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kabbalahcounseling\/2012\/10\/is-a-diamond-really-forever.html#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/endoftheworld.net\/Jesus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/beautiful_diamond-300x225.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/endoftheworld.net\/Jesus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/beautiful_diamond-300x225.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kabbalahcounseling\/2012\/10\/is-a-diamond-really-forever.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kabbalahcounseling"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"IS A DIAMOND REALLY FOREVER?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kabbalahcounseling\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kabbalahcounseling\/","name":"Kabbalah Counseling","description":"Kabbalah Wisdom, Jewish Wisdom, Jewish Inspiration","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kabbalahcounseling\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kabbalahcounseling\/#\/schema\/person\/0145df9eb3f314357485846fb6645cf6","name":"eyaakov","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kabbalahcounseling\/author\/eyaakov"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kabbalahcounseling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kabbalahcounseling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kabbalahcounseling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kabbalahcounseling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/506"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kabbalahcounseling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kabbalahcounseling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kabbalahcounseling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kabbalahcounseling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kabbalahcounseling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kabbalahcounseling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}