Ecclesiastes – Chapter 6  The Shadow Knows  By Rabbi Jack
Abramowitz  Here’s something else Solomon says he has seen and
has determined is just no good: often, a person has wealth and
power, but G-d has not given him the ability to enjoy it
(because, as in the previous chapter, the person has an
insatiable desire for wealth). The result is that someone else
ends up taking it all away. How futile!  If a person lived a
long life and had 100 children, but he wasn’t satisfied with his
portion and did not receive a proper burial, it would have been
better not to be born. After all, what was the point of his
life? A stillborn child never even saw the sun shine, but he
still had more satisfaction than the person in this example.
What good is living even two thousand years if one can’t be
satisfied? In the end, everyone goes back into the ground. We
work our whole lives to feed ourselves in this world and in the
Next World, so if one was never satisfied and accumulated no
merits, his time was a waste. What was the ad