All the Days of Your Life Means Days With the Living

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 102:14

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Rabbi Bun said: "so that you may remember the day of your going out from the land of Egypt all the days of your life" (Deuteronomy 16:3) means the days on which you are occupied with the living, and not the days on which you are occupied with the dead.

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