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Question of the Week:
 
Can you explain why Genesis describes the lifespan of the early generations as being incredibly long? Adam is said to have 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 mid-life crisis? Were centenarians getting up to teenage mischief? Did parents tell their children, "Stop acting like a forty year old!"?
 
Whatever the case, we find that the first few generations lived extremely long, and then after Noah's flood the average lifespan reduced dramatically, with people living about as long as we do today. 
 
The main difference between the earlier generations and the later is that in the first generations of humanity, they were all new souls. The souls of Adam and Eve, their children and grandchildren were coming into this world for the first time. Not so the following generations, who possessed souls that had been here before and were sent back in another incarnation.
 
Each soul comes down into this world to fulfill a set of missions, and it is given a lifespan that is long enough to complete these missions. 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.
 
The earlier generations had big souls and long life spans, because they were fresh and new and had a lot of work to do. But things didn't always work out as planned, and so their souls had to come back and tidy things up. These big souls were spread out among thousands and millions of reincarnations, smaller souls with less work to do, and thus shorter life times to do it.
 
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.
 
Good Shabbos,
Rabbi Moss

Source:
Ohr Hachaim, Parshas Vayechi Bereishis 47:29


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SHABBOS SERVICE TIMES & COMMUNITY INFO: BEREISHIS
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Friday, 25 October 2019| 26 Tishrei 5780
Candle Lighting.......... 6:58pm (not before 5:57pm)
Mincha....................... 6:15pm
Shabbos Service   ........ 6:30-7:20pm
Kids Program ............. 6:30pm
Kiddush sponsored by Jack Reuben in honour of the yortzheit for his late Aunt, Helene Violet Bat Yaakov - Long Life.
 
SHABBOS MORNING SERVICE  FOR THIS WEEK ONLY  AT YESHIVA 36 FLOOD ST, BONDI
Shabbos Day, 26 October 2019 | 27 Tishrei 5780
In depth Parsha class......... 9:00am
Shabbos Service at with Bar Mitzvah of Samuel Super ...10:00am-12:20pm
Kids Program .................... 10:30am
Followed by Kiddush in honour of Samuel's Bar Mitzvah - Mazal Tov!
 
Mincha (back at Francis st) followed by Seudah Shlishis ......6:55pm
Gematria and Story by Rev Amzalak......... 7:25pm
Shiur with Rabbi Moss............................. 7:40pm
Shabbos ends........................................ 7:56pm
Followed by Havdalah
 
WEEKDAY SERVICES
Sunday................................................. 8:00am
Mon-Fri..................................................7:00am
Latest Shema this week.......................... 9:19am
New moon/ Molad.......... Monday 28 Oct 6:34:6PM
Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan........ Tues-Wed 29-30 Oct
 
MAZAL TOV
To Gideon and Rita Super and the entire extended families on Samuel's Bar Mitzvah!
 
HAPPY JEWISH BIRTHDAY
Yehezkel-Yoel Ezekiel.... 28 Tishrei/ Sunday 27 Oct
Asher Waine................. 29 Tishrei/ Monday 28 Oct
Tom Cromer...... 2 Cheshvan/ Thursday 31 October
Monique Klein ....... 3 Cheshvan/ Friday 1 November
 
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
Karen & Roger Berman. 28 Tishrei/ Sunday 27 Oct
Pia & Jonah Ink......... 2 Cheshvan/ Thursday 31 Oct
 
LONG LIFE
Peppi Glick for his late father Ruby Glick... 2 Cheshvan/ Thursday 31 October

Les Pozniak for his late step-mother Joan Pozniak
Chai Bat Leah... 2 Cheshvan/ Thursday 31 October

Roy, Steven and Kim Eckowitz for their late mother Alma Eckowitz
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