Since I invoke Torah so often, let me state that I don't personally believe in the God it postulates. . . I am not religious, nor were the majority of the early builders of Israel believers. Yet their passion for this land stemmed from the Book of Books. . . [The Bible is] the single most important book in my life.
How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living.