If you are part of that life, and you make an effort to be there, it means something, and they won’t forget it
Shmuel said to Rav Yehuda, “Keen scholar, grab and eat, grab and drink, as the world from which we are departing is like a wedding feast” (Eiruvin 54).
The Chiddushei Harim explained: On the night he makes a wedding, even the simple tailor is royalty, his face aglow as he sits at the dais, receiving the good wishes of the people.
A week later, he is back in his shop, threading a needle through someone’s pair of old, faded pants.
And such is life, the Gemara is saying; every night, another baal simchah takes his turn. Sometimes you’re invited to the party, other times you’re left out. And once in a while, you are the person they are dancing around.
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