Mesorat%20hashas for Shabbat 303:14

ואמר רבי יצחק מאי דכתיב (קהלת יא, י) כי הילדות והשחרות הבל דברים שאדם עושה בילדותו משחירים פניו לעת זקנתו

R. Isaac also said: What means the verse, For youth and the prime of life are vanity?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. XI. 10. ');">³⁵</span> The things a man does in his youth blacken his face<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Rashi: weaken him, the reference being to sexual indulgence. The passage may also refer to actions in general for which one in old age feels himself blackened with shame. ');">³⁶</span> in his old age.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' He derives shaharuth (E.V. prime of life) from shahor, black, and translates: 'for youth and the blackening (of old age) are vanity'. ');">³⁷</span>

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