Shabbat Talmud Study: For Your Seders, a Juicy Story with Four Reads

One of the Talmud’s most evocative stories is a thought experiment. Imagine you go to sleep for 70 years. Meanwhile life moves on for everybody else. Your family, friends and loved ones are subject to the ravages of time. You are not. The 2 year old becomes 72. The 20 year old becomes 90. The 50 year old passes out of the universe.

Seventy years later you wake up and go back to your old house, your old shul, your old job. The buildings are the same. The people are different. It does not end well. What does that teach us?

In the spirit of the season, there are four very different readings of this one-page story, each of which intersects with your seder table.

Tomorrow is Shabbat Hagadol, when we are supposed to be thinking about the first seder next Friday night. This story will get your seder juices flowing.

See you tomorrow at 8:30.

Shabbat shalom,
Wes