My Eppiphanies

Over Pesach I had one. And now, not even 15 minutes ago, I had another. First my Pesach one.

So I was at the seder (sick, yes...) and we got up to the part wehre the 5 rabbis were sitting together, etc, and R' Elazar ben Azaryah HaKohein says, I'm like 70 etc., so the question is, why is he only like 70, and not just 70? He didn't speak Valley girl-ese, so what's going on? Answer is, he was the Nasi of the Beis Din, head of B'nei Yisraek pretty much, and he was only 18, so over night HaShem made 18 rows of his hair white, to look older.

This is when I realized, we're the same age. Imagine me as he Nasi of the Beis Din...oh my God. How much we have grown apart from them who came before us...

The second one, which happened about 20 minutes ago, I was eating breakfast--matzah and butter, of course--and I wasn't watching tv, I was by myself in the dining room (I'm at ima's now), and I'm not really sure how I came upon it, I think I was looking at I & S's kesubah, and whatever else, and like, oh, ima was 18 when she got married, and in June, after high school...which is when I realized....my mother was a senior kallah. Jeez...I didn't even know they had these things back then. But again, that's like me getting married soon. I mean, as much as I would like to, there's no way I'm ready....What the hell was she thinking?!?! .... Well, whatever it was, I guess it was good, because, I mean, come on, I'm here, and that's not SO bad...