The fantastic life of twins, triplets, and more!

Pesach is a Yom Tov of numbers. Four cups of wine, four sons, Ten Makkos, and of course, six babies born at once. Imagine having so many siblings who are your age! Well, some people out there don’t need to imagine what it would be like. They were born with a friend and playmate — or two, or three, or four!

Double the Fun

Who hasn’t dreamed of having a twin sister or brother? Of always having someone to play with, or talk to? Not a bossy older sister or an annoying younger brother — just someone who is your age. But what’s it really like to actually have a twin? Is it really as great as it seems? Let’s see what some twins have to say about their real-life experiences as twins.

Shaina and Tzipporah Hecht — Identical twin girls

Once, in high school, the principal called one of the twins into her office and gave her a really important job. You might expect her twin to be totally jealous, but she wasn’t! She was just happy for her sister. (Shaina and Tzipporah are pretty sure the principal didn’t really know the difference between the two sisters, and just picked one of the two at random!)

When they were babies, they rolled over for the first time on the same day, they crawled on the same day, and they even took their first steps on the same day!

As they grew up, their mother wanted to make sure that they each developed their own identity, so she sent them to different schools. This meant that for years they lost out on the opportunity to cash in on the twins thing — at least in school. Of course, had they thought of it, they could have switched schools….

There are all sorts of perks to having a twin, like having someone to go to camp with every summer. Tzipporah was always the more outgoing twin, while Shaina was always pretty quiet. Shaina had a blast in camp, though, because if you come with a guaranteed friend, it doesn’t really matter if you’re quiet.

Once, Shaina was talking to a friend who asked her, “If you had to be someone else, who would you want to be?”

Shaina replied, “Like who? Tzipporah?”

“No. You and Tzipporah are like the same person. Someone else.”

Umm… really? They’re the same person? But that’s how people who don’t know them relate to them.