Yehudah ben Teima says: Be bold as a nameir, swift as an eagle, fast as a deer, and strong as a lion to do the will of your Father in Heaven.  He used to say: The brazen-faced to Gehin- nom; the shame-faced to the Garden of Eden.  May it be the will before You, Hashem our God, that You rebuild Your city speedily in our days and grant us our share in Your Torah.

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.