Rabbi Eleazar ben Azariah's enigmatic claim of being "like a seventy-year-old man" conceals profound insights about spiritual maturity and mystical consciousness. Through comparative midrashic exegesis connecting biblical passages with rabbinic commentaries, particularly Nahmanides' interpretation of Abraham's blessing "with everything" (*ba-kol*) in Genesis 24:1, a deeper dimension emerges in Ben Zoma's teaching on remembering the Exodus. Moving beyond traditional halakhic readings, close textual analysis reveals how the Hebrew word *kol* ("all") operates as a key to understanding Ben Zoma's paradoxical spiritual insights. While some interpreted his fate as descent into madness, his ability to perceive divine presence in both light and darkness suggests instead a transcendent spiritual achievement. His mystical awareness of unity—perceiving minimal separation between "upper and lower waters"—demonstrates that authentic spiritual liberation requires embracing the totality of existence rather than seeking divine connection only in favorable circumstances. Ben Zoma's experience ultimately offers a model for spiritual maturity in confronting life's inevitable challenges and mortality, representing genuine religious enlightenment rather than psychological breakdown.