thought and said, "I know the entire Torah!" The salesman answered, "Great, but to drink you have to pay!"
The son came home and said that he was going out to "make money" because that's what people value. His father gave him a large diamond and told him, "Go to the market tomorrow, and since you don't know much about trading, go around the market and ask about the prices that will be offered to you. Don't sell the diamond yet. In the evening, tell me about the offers, and then we will decide who to sell to."
The son went out to the market and came to the cobblers' street, asked them, "How much do you offer for the diamond?" The cobblers saw the diamond and admired its size and offered a hundred gold coins. From there he went on to the market of the Butchers and offered it to them. The Butchers looked at them and said, "We will pay you a thousand gold coins for it!" At the cooks' market, they offered him five thousand gold coins in exchange for the diamond. At the end of the day, he arrived at the diamond market. The diamond dealers had never seen such a large stone in their lives and immediately offered him a million gold coins!
He returned home in the evening and told his father about his tour and its results. His father said to him, "I don't understand! After all, they offered a variety of prices; who is really right, the shoemakers or the diamond dealers? And why did the cobbler market offer you only a hundred?"
The son answered, "Very simple, they don't understand beautiful stones. To know the true value of the stone, you have to go to a place where you understand stones, only in the diamond market."
Rav Kahane said to him: "Let your ears hear what your mouth speaks. You have to go to someone who understands the merchandise in question, and hear from him how much he appreciates it. You went out to the market and walked around people who were busy all day "making money," and you heard from them that they don't appreciate the entire Torah, because they don't understand the Torah. Tomorrow you will go out with me to a meeting where they know how to appreciate this commodity, and then you will see how much it is worth in their eyes."
