New York Times and The Value of Talmud Torah

Hat tip: Instapundit:

The New York Times shares with its readers the secret to a longer life:

The one social factor that researchers agree is consistently linked to longer lives in every country where it has been studied is education. It is more important than race; it obliterates any effects of income.

Of course, we don't need the Times to tell us that giving your child a Yeshiva education obliterates any effects of income.

Besides, we already know that Talmud Torah leads to a longer life:

There was one family in Jerusalem whose member would die when only eighteen years old. They came and informed Rabban Yochanan Ben Zakkai of their predicament. He said to them, "perhaps you are from the family of Eli concerning whom it is written, "and all those raised in your house will die as (young) men." (I Samuel 2:33) Go and engage in Torah Study and live. They went and engaged in Torah study and they lived. And they called it "the family of Rabbban Yochanan" after him. [Rosh HaShanah 18a; ArtScroll translation]

Live and learn...and live.

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