The Value of Money

As Mr. Obama finishes his fifth month in office and assumes greater ownership of the problems he inherited, Americans are alarmed by the hundreds of billions of dollars that have been doled out to boost the economy.

The American people have been taught, as Oscar Wilde said, the price of everything—but the value of nothing. In the Torah everything is evaluated and set with a price weighed in silver whereas modern day finance is based on a promissory note given by the government whose taxes the people to pay the banks interest on the money they borrow in taxes–it is called the economy.

In evaluating the human being, generally the male is worth more than the female because he is stronger and uncomplicated when compared to woman; but in their later years when brut strength is no longer necessary woman is worth more than man because as the Talmud–Book of Law claims, an old woman in the house is a blessing while an old man in the house is a curse.

The Cabala explains how money is the physical representation of the human desire for more, but more physicality can never fulfill our spiritual desire to connect to the Creator through caring for creation.