[Avodah] Some Interesting Remarks About Birchas HaChama

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

R' Micha Berger wrote:
> And therefore the driving issue was making an event rare enough
> to become a big deal (unlike thunder or seeing the ocean or a
> desert) and yet frequent enough for most people to do it more
> than once, and that it be transmittable mimetically.

If we ignore the fact that most one-year-olds are unaware of what's going on at Birchas Hachama, then we can say that at a person's *first* Birchas Hachama, he/she is as a mean (average) age of 14. And thus 42 at the second, and 70 at the third.

If we also accept 70 as a human's typical lifespan, then this means that a typical person experiences (without rounding) three Birchas Hachamas in a typical lifetime.

I realize that there are a lot of "if"s in that, but I find this number to be very interesting in context of transmitting all this to the generations.

Akiva Miller

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