Saitama Pref., 8 Nov. 2025
There once lived in Japan a very poor man who didn't know his place at all. One day he heard about Romanée-Conti and went to several moneylenders to collect enough money to get a bottle of the extremely expensive French red wine. Somehow he managed to get a bottle of it. He was overjoyed when opening the bottle. Pouring some of the wine into his glass, he gulped it as quickly as he could and within an hour he had emptied the bottle. Now, having drunk it up, he only had a huge debt he could never repay. Naturally he went bankrupt and even ended up as a public assistance recipient.
A very rich Jewish man, on the other hand, felt like drinking Romanée-Conti too and ordered two bottles of it online. A few days later he poured some of the wine into his glass, sipped it little by little, and looked satisfied. After emptying the first bottle of the wine, he kept the second in his cellar until its value doubled and then sold it, thereby so cleverly offsetting the cost he had paid to get the two bottles of it. Yeah, this very rich Jewish man substantially succeeded in drinking a bottle of the extremely expensive French red wine for free. Yes, money talks!
I think I have something to learn from this story. As for myself, I've never had an opportunity to drink the above-mentioned French red wine and I don't think I will have one in the very near future. To be honest, my preference has always been for Israeli white wine, so I'll probably never even try to get a bottle of any expensive red wine unless I become a millionaire. My mission is - and will always be - to devote myself to doing anything possible to bless Israel and the Jewish people and therefore I'll try my best to spend as much money as I can for them whilst getting good Israeli wine, investing in BlackRock iShares S&P 500 index fund, donating regularly to JIFA, going to Israeli restaurants in Tokyo, etc.
