Comentario sobre Eclesiastés 3:2

A time to be born. At nine months.

“A time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to uproot that which is planted” (Ecclesiastes 3:2).
“A time to be born, and a time to die” – Rabbi Berekhya said: Is all of Solomon’s wisdom that he said, “a time to be born, and a time to die”? What is [the meaning of this verse]? Happy is the person whose time of death is like the time of his birth; just as at the time of his birth he was clean [of sin], so, too, at the time of his death he is clean.
“A time to be born, and a time to die” – at the time when a woman sits on the birthing stool, they call her ḥaita. Why do they call her ḥaita? Because she is on the verge of dying, and she lives [ḥayya]. Why do they call her meḥabalta? It is because she is mortgaged in the hands of death, just as you say: “if you take as security [ḥavol taḥvol] your neighbor’s garment” (Exodus 22:25). Rabbi Simon in the name of Rabbi Natan of Beit Guvrin said: “The grave and the barren womb” (Proverbs 30:16) – why is the grave juxtaposed to the womb? It is to say to you: Just as one is removed from the womb with loud cries, so too, one will be removed from the grave with loud cries.²Cries of thanksgiving to God when the dead are resurrected.

And a time to die. The limit of the years of each generation.