DEUT540 For ultimately, long life is of itself no great blessing, if the added days are filled only with boredom and trivia and old age's increasing aches and pains. Torah brings a richer existence, infused with intimations of immortality in the radiance of the Divine Presence, to make the days a prelude to life in the world-to-come, for which the Torah is the ultimate passport. Finite time brings a mellifluous sense of infinity. In this sense does the second paragraph of Sh'ma bid us keep the Divine precepts faithfully "that your days… may be multiplied… as the days of the heavens above the earth" [this verse].