Talmud zu Kohelet 12:1

⁹⁸Lev. rabba 18(1); cf. Abot dR. Natan, A 19, B 32; Derekh Ereṣ 3 in the name of Ben Azai. There ⁹⁹Mishnah Abot 3:1: "Aqabiah ben Mehallalel says, consider three things and you will not commit any transgression: Know from where you came, where you are going, and before Whom you will be held accountable in the future. From where you came, from a stinking drop. Where you are going, to a place of dust, worms, and vermin. Before Whom you will be held accountable in the future, before the King over emperors and kings, the Holy One, praise to Him.", we have stated: “Aqabiah ben Mehallalel says, consider three things and you will not commit any transgression.” Rebbi Abba ben Rav Pappaeus and Rebbi Joshua from Sikhnin in the name of Rebbi Joshua ben Levi: All three Aqabiah derived from the same verse¹⁰⁰Eccl. 12:1.: “Remember your Creator,” your fountain, your cavern, your Creator¹⁰¹Based on three possible vocalizations of the biblical בראך.. The vocalization בוראֲך instead of the masoretic בראֶך is the manuscript’s.. Your fountain, from where you came. Your cave, to where you are going. Your Creator, before Whom you will have to be accountable in the future.

BARAITHA. Let not your adolescence be sinful, for such is not¹⁰⁶The negative is omitted by V but included in DEZ. praise of the Torah.
GEMARA. For the Torah declared, Remember then thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say: I have no pleasure in them.¹⁰⁷Eccl. 12, 1. And it further states, Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men.¹⁰⁸Isa. 9, 16. And what means ‘not praise of the Torah’? Some say: The decrepit old man withholds himself from what he can no longer do, but in his youth he was a sinner.