Jewish%20thought for Sotah 44:1
ועד כמה עד ארבעין שנין איני והא רבה אורי בשוין
At what age [is he qualified]? — At forty.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Tosaphoth explains this to mean after forty years of study. It may, however, be connected with the statement in Ab. V, 24, At forty for understanding. ');"><sup>1</sup></span> But it is not so, for Rabbah decided questions of Law!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' He died at the age of forty; v. R. H. 18a. ');"><sup>2</sup></span>
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