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Rubystars:
Thank you for all the information. I'm just wondering how people were able to live that long medically.
Ephraim Ben Noach:
--- Quote from: Rubystars on June 20, 2013, 10:03:49 AM ---Thank you for all the information. I'm just wondering how people were able to live that long medically.
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G-d is the master of the universe, the master scientist. Right? So what if Gd changed some of the elements of nature, so that we age more rapidly because of our sins. As we advance in technology and science, we start to identify these elements that shorten our lives. Therefore we solve some of the problems and we live longer than we use too. But as we advance and keep sinning, Gd will punch us in the back of the head and if that doesn't wake us up, he'll destroy us all.
Whahahaha!
muman613:
The Chabad website attempts to explain this from the Jewish perspective:
http://www.chabad.org/parshah/article_cdo/aid/1703178/jewish/Why-Did-People-in-the-First-Millennia-Live-for-So-Long.htm
Dear Rabbi,
Can you explain why the lifespans of the early generations were incredibly long? According to Genesis, Adam died at age 930, Noah was almost 500 when he started building the ark (not bad!), and Methuselah lived a world record 969 years. So what happened? Why don’t we live that long anymore?
Answer:
The longevity of our patriarchs raises several questions. What does it feel like to hit 900? When did they have their midlife crisis? Were centenarians getting up to teenage mischief? Did parents tell their children, “Stop acting like a 40-year-old!”?
Whatever the case, the first few generations of humanity lived extremely long lives, and then after Noah’s flood we see a dramatic reduction in average lifespan—people begin to live as long as we do today.
We know that each soul that comes into the world arrives with a set of missions to fulfill. The person housing that soul is given a lifespan that is long enough to complete these missions.
The main difference between the earlier and later generations is that the first generations of humanity had large, “all-encompassing” souls. People in later generations possessed only fragments of those original souls. Those souls were broken up and shared between several individuals.
The earlier generations had big souls and long lifespans, because they had a lot of work to do. In later generations, these big souls were spread out among thousands and millions of individuals, in the form of smaller souls with less work to do, and thus shorter lifetimes to do it in.
But if, for whatever reason, a soul does not complete all the work it needs to in one lifetime, it is given more chances. A reincarnated soul is a spark of an earlier soul that comes back to earth in a new body to complete unfinished business from its previous life.
None of us know how much time we have, but we do know that we don’t have centuries. We don’t have the luxury to start building our ark when we are 500. Better start now.
Israel Chai:
--- Quote from: muman613 on June 20, 2013, 06:05:25 PM ---The Chabad website attempts to explain this from the Jewish perspective:
http://www.chabad.org/parshah/article_cdo/aid/1703178/jewish/Why-Did-People-in-the-First-Millennia-Live-for-So-Long.htm
Dear Rabbi,
Can you explain why the lifespans of the early generations were incredibly long? According to Genesis, Adam died at age 930, Noah was almost 500 when he started building the ark (not bad!), and Methuselah lived a world record 969 years. So what happened? Why don’t we live that long anymore?
Answer:
The longevity of our patriarchs raises several questions. What does it feel like to hit 900? When did they have their midlife crisis? Were centenarians getting up to teenage mischief? Did parents tell their children, “Stop acting like a 40-year-old!”?
Whatever the case, the first few generations of humanity lived extremely long lives, and then after Noah’s flood we see a dramatic reduction in average lifespan—people begin to live as long as we do today.
We know that each soul that comes into the world arrives with a set of missions to fulfill. The person housing that soul is given a lifespan that is long enough to complete these missions.
The main difference between the earlier and later generations is that the first generations of humanity had large, “all-encompassing” souls. People in later generations possessed only fragments of those original souls. Those souls were broken up and shared between several individuals.
The earlier generations had big souls and long lifespans, because they had a lot of work to do. In later generations, these big souls were spread out among thousands and millions of individuals, in the form of smaller souls with less work to do, and thus shorter lifetimes to do it in.
But if, for whatever reason, a soul does not complete all the work it needs to in one lifetime, it is given more chances. A reincarnated soul is a spark of an earlier soul that comes back to earth in a new body to complete unfinished business from its previous life.
None of us know how much time we have, but we do know that we don’t have centuries. We don’t have the luxury to start building our ark when we are 500. Better start now.
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I heard it was due to the firmament around the world, water that dampened the sun...
Ephraim Ben Noach:
--- Quote from: Lethal Kahanist Zealot on June 20, 2013, 09:01:51 PM ---I heard it was due to the firmament around the world, water that dampened the sun...
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How would dampening the sun shorten life? Also that doesn't counter what he posted... That could just be the means G-d used...
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