Ein Yaakov 013a | Healthy Aging | Olam Haba | Teshuvah | Astrology

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The opening of this shiur, in R' Nasan Maimon’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

The Gemara says that when a person grows old, he reaches old age his faculties become weakened. Just as he grows old, that's how the organs of the body become older and weaker and his senses too become less acute. It says for example person when he walks he finds that small ridges are comparable to tall hills he finds that two feet are not enough for him to get along on he needs three and needs an additional cane to rest upon finds that his digestive system doesn't work the grinding of the food inside it's called a millstone is slow acting We find too that the sound of a bird chirping awakens him. Singing of a bird awakens him when customarily in order to put a person to sleep they play soothing music and this would make a person sleepy and do sleep. Instead to him the smallest sound wakes him up. Also he finds that the best music seems to him like ordinary speech. He cannot be pecked musical notes anymore. The shows that Adi who lived in the days of King David stated to King David once, I am 80 years old and I cannot tell a difference between that which is good or that which is bad. That means my sense of taste has been impaired. I cannot taste food anymore to tell which is good food which is bad. Therefore, we see from there that in old age a person's senses are so weakened that they become neutralized. says refutes this. Says that Adi was speaking of falsehood because there was a maid who worked for Lebi Kadosh who was 92 years old and she served as the cook who tested the food. She tasted each

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