The wording of the 'May it be Your will' prayer before Psalms reads: 'That we merit to live seventy years, or even by reasons of strength eighty years' and the wording is the same in several prayer books in the 'May it be Your will' recited upon the opening of the ark. What should an elder who is more than eighty recite? Moreover, even if one has not yet reached seventy, why ask for a limited term – when the Holy One, blessed be He, has perhaps accorded him a longer life? He should therefore not recite this version, but say: that we should merit a long and proper life. This version, certainly, holds mystical value, being the prayer recited by the Cohen Gadol at the end of Yom Kippur, upon his safely departing from the Sanctity.