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Trivia on Noach: Who Lived the Longest Life in History?{It's Not Who You Think}

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

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  1. 0:01There's a a notion that the oldest person who ever lived was Methuselah, 969 years. Which…
  2. 0:31David Hamelech. >> Yeah. >> So, he would have been 70 years old. >> He would…
  3. 1:01how So, we have two people. >> You don't know that they never never uh >>…
  4. 1:33Chiram is the friend of David Hamelech. So, that means he must have lived 1,200 years.…
  5. 2:07No. You know who lived longer? Noach's wife. Yeah, that's what you're going to say, yeah.…
  6. 2:39Okay, so why do I say Noach's wife? Who is born first? Naamah, the wife of…
  7. 3:09means that Naamah presumably is older than Sheth. The Medrash also says explicitly that the wives…
  8. 3:39What year was the mabul? Mabul was the year 1656. So, the lady is at least…
  9. 4:09that you could you know, you could build a bias in them on even if the…
  10. 4:42You want The lady's not going to let you write how old she was, you know.…

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