Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Pirkei Avot 5.21 (cf. 2 Timothy 3:15)

  

He used to say: At five years of age the study of Scripture; At ten the study of Mishnah; At thirteen subject to the commandments; At fifteen the study of Talmud; At eighteen the bridal canopy; At twenty for pursuit [of livelihood]; At thirty the peak of strength; At forty wisdom; At fifty able to give counsel; At sixty old age; At seventy fullness of years; At eighty the age of “strength”; At ninety a bent body; At one hundred, as good as dead and gone completely out of the world.(Pirkei Avot 5.21; cf. 2 Tim 3:15 “And that from a child [βρεφος] thou hast known the holy scriptures . . .”)