Holocaust Survivor, Age 111, Now World’s Oldest Man
About a month and a half ago, CrownHeights.info published an article about Alexander Imich, a 111-year-old holocaust survivor and his rediscovery of his Jewish heritage thanks to Coney Island Shliach Rabbi Pinny Marozov. As of yesterday, Alexander has been confirmed to be the oldest man in the world.
From the L.A. Jewish Journal:
Alexander Imich, 111 years and 92 days old (as of this post), is now the oldest man on earth.
The Jewish New Yorker was born in Poland in 1903.
He earned a PhD in chemistry before WWII and then spent two years during the Holocaust in a Russian labor camp near the White Sea.
After the war, he emigrated to the U.S. with his wife and moved to Manhattan in 1965.
Imich spent his career as a chemist trying to prove that the neshama (soul) remains after the physical body dies. In 1992, he published a book about that thesis.
He thinks his longevity has to do with a combination of eating well, not drinking, being very active and not having children.
Imich has lived to see an astounding number of major world events:
-The first manned flight
-WWI and WWII (and the Holocaust)
-The sinking of the Titanic
-The addition of five states to the US
-Prohibition
-Women’s suffrage
-The invention of Penicillin
-The Great Depression
-The first man on the moon
-The entire Cold War
-The birth of radio, television and the internet
umm
and not having children? thats weird…
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What’s weird about it?
not weird
children bring lots of stress
yes better to die younger have leave something over in this world then die at 120 and not have any children to keep you alive
Maybe Has To Do With What He's Into Proving
In Rana”t Mamer Shuvo Yisroel it says that if the guf was botul to the neshomo it would live forever
not really
you have to understand the way seculer think
Kinder
Wether were talking about a older Man or a older woman There is nothing weird about it! The widow who is really in need and left all alone puts her hope in Hashem and continues night and day to pray and to ask Hashem for help.