Rising from Merchant Status

And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old [when he died] (Deuteronomy 34:7).

He was one of four who died at the age of one hundred and twenty, and these were Moses, Hillel the Elder, Rabban Yoḥanan ben Zakkai, and R. Akiva. Moses was in Egypt for forty years and in Midian for forty years and led Israel for forty years. Hillel the Elder came up…