by Rabbi Yehuda (Leonard) Blank MS, BCC
It is interesting to note the ages of Moshe Rabbeinu and Aharon HaKohen, 83 and 80 respectively when they finally meet each other after many years apart. It is the beginning of the story of the Exodus which begins in our Torah, Parshas. Va’eira. I have often written about what it means to be older (and not old). Feeling good about oneself is important, not looking at what a person cannot do but rather what a person can do.. At a recent wedding I attended a well-known rabbi was telling me about his father whose wife was nifteres, remarried at 84 years of age and in fact the former Rosh Yeshiva of Chafetz Chaim Yeshiva zt”l also remarried in his 80’s. HaKadoh Baruch Hu can do and make anything possible….