by Rabbi David Zaslow
in honor of Reb Zalman’s upcoming 90th birthday

Before birth
a day feels like a thousand years

At birth
a day feels like a lifetime

At one
a day feels like a decade

At three
a day feels like a year

At seven
a day feels like a month

At thirteen
a day feels like a week

At twenty-one
a day feels like a day

At forty
twelve hours feel like a day

At sixty
eight hours feel like a day

At eighty
an hour feels like a day

At one hundred
a minute feels like a day

At one hundred and twenty
a second feels like a day

I’m told that at death
a second feels like a lifetime

and that after death
a day feels like a thousand years