He would say: A five-year-old to [study] Scrip- ture, a ten-year-old to [study] Mishnah, a thirteen-year-old to [observe] the mitzvos, a fifteen-year-old to [study] Talmud, an eighteen-year-old to [go to] the wedding canopy, a twenty-year-old to chase, a thirty-year-old for power, a forty-year-old for understanding, a fifty-year-old for counsel, a sixty-year- old for old age, a sev-enty-year-old for ripe old age, an eighty-year-old for strength, a ninety-year-old to [be] stooped over, a hundred-year-old is as if he died and passed away and ceased from the world.