RaYBaSH’s Ponderings of the Perkei Avot
Chapter 6:8
By: Yehudah ben Shomeyr
Rabbi Shimon the son of Menasia would say: these seven qualities enumerated by the sages for the righteous were all realized in Rabbi [Judah HaNassi] and his sons.”
The pattern is that old men should teach young men and old women should teach women. Usually with age comes wisdom and experience and when one is teaching about religious life and life in general wisdom that comes with age and experience is indispensable.
Titus 2:1-8 But speak thou the things which become sound
doctrine: That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in
charity, in patience. The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as
becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good
things; That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their
husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home,
good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded. In all things shewing thyself a
pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,
Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part
may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
Shalom,
-- Yehudah ben
Shomeyr
