Rabbi Elazar Ben Azariah amar, Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah said: This is similar to a teaching regarding the sage, Rabbi Abun, who is said to have learned more in his brief 28 years than a seasoned scholar of 100 years learned in a life time. Similarly, Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah was a young man of only eighteen but had already attained the wisdom of a seventy year old. Because he had so much wisdom, he was worthy of being chosen to be the Nasi, the head of the Sanhedrin. Still Rabbi Elazar was unable to learn the teaching that one should mention the Exodus at night on his own until the teaching of ben Zoma was promulgated. Once this teaching was present in the communal discourse, Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah was able to teach the ruling regarding the recitation of the Exodus at night. In other words it is not that ben Zoma taught this ruling; in point of fact Rabbi Elazar did. The Haggadah says, “Until ben Zoma interpreted the verse...” It does not say, “And ben Zoma interpreted the verse…” This suggests that once the idea was suggested, Rabbi Elazar was able to figure out the law in this case. What was it that ben Zoma taught? Even though the word yamim generally refers to both day and night, as we see in Genesis, “And it was morning and it was evening one day,” generally we distinguish one from the other, as in “And he called the light day, and the darkness night” Therefore, ben Zoma felt it was necessary to find another scriptural reference which would make it clear that we must mention the Exodus both in the day time and at night: he interprets “All the days” – “the days” refers to the day time and “all” as a reference to the nights. The Sages and Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah also disagreed about the interpretation of the word hayecha, “your life,” in the phrase “all the days of your life.” Rabbi Elazar understands the expression “your life” as a reference to this world, while the sages who were of the opinion that one does not have to mention the Exodus at night, understood the word Hayecha, “your life,” as a reference to the time of the Messiah.