How did Noah and Methuselah live for hundreds of years?
by Rabbi Naftali Silberberg addthis_pub = ‘rabbisimcha’; –> function gomprint(Hierarchy, ixObject){ var vwidth = 680; var vheight = 520; var url = ‘/en/article_print.html?h=’ + Hierarchy + ‘&o=’ + ixObject; window.open(url,’print’,’toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,menubar=no,status=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=no,width=’+vwidth+’,height=’+vheight+’,top=’+((window.screen.height/2)-(vheight/2))+’,left=’+((window.screen.width/2)-(vwidth/2))); } Library » History » Early Years | Subscribe | What is RSS? PRINT EMAIL COMMENT It is a fact that the life-expectancy of people in industrialized nations is much higher than their third-world country counterparts. The life expectancy today is also much higher than it was even a century ago. Is this a super-natural, miraculous occurrence? No. We live healthier lifestyles, we are immunized from many diseases which plagued our ancestors, and we have access to better medical care. We see that “aging” is subjective. One hundred years ago a sixty-fiv