B"H
Tevet 10, 5772 * January 5, 2012
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Q U E S T I O N O F T H E W E E K
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Why Did People in the First Millennia Live for So Long?
By Aron Moss
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Dear Rabbi,
Can you explain why the lifespans of the early generations were incredibly long? According to Genesis, Adam [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=8A7DC91A4118C8FE60546446DA16525C&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ] died at age 930, Noah [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=6FC1E9A9094EB06AAF6703D5FD1BECF6&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ] was almost 500 when he started building the ark (not bad!), and Methuselah [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=3716E38924014B15C33A86FC7FAE9231&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ] 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 [ http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=5A057CB56D67824BCD39C6235FB922A0&ui=F8C16ABBBCDB72AD0024EE2F647D78D2 ] 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.
- Rabbi Aron Moss teaches Kabbalah, Talmud and practical Judaism in Sydney, Australia, and is a frequent contributor to Chabad.org.
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