Jerry Seinfeld is an automobile enthusiast and collector, and he owns a collection of about 150 cars, including a large Porsche collection. He rented a hangar at the Santa Monica Airport in Santa Monica, California, for an extended period during the 1990s for storage of some of the vehicles in the collection. In 2002, Seinfeld purchased property on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City where he built a $1.4 million two-story garage to store part of his Porsche collection on the East Coast. One tally has Seinfeld owning 43 Porsches. Paul Bannister has written that Seinfeld's collection includes Porsche 911s from various years, 10 Porsche Boxsters each painted a different color, and the 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder, the same model and pearl-grey color that actor James Dean had been driving before he crashed that car and subsequently died.
A coffee aficionado, Seinfeld owns multiple espresso machines, including the $17,000 Elektra Belle Epoque and two machines manufactured by Slayer and Breville. Seinfeld described his single-group Slayer machine, which costs upwards of $8,500, as a "beautiful machine."
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I wonder if Seinfeld ever thinks to himself "Hey Jerry, there are starving people in the world. I could easily take thousands of people out of poverty for life. I could donate money to the local hospital. I could support all of the new army widows in Israel. But naaaah, instead I will buy another coffee machine and another car."
I think that it is so sad that there are people like that in our world, who live such frivolous lives. What makes it sadder is that he has a Yiddishe Neshama. I am sure that he gives a lot of Tzdaka but I am also sure that he doesn't need to own more than one or two cars and have more than one coffee machine.
But then again - I am thinking like a Torah Jew who understands that life has a higher purpose and he is clearly very far from that רח"ל.
