Fiddler sickies?

So this morning as I was showering, I was humming "Matchmaker" from Fiddler on the Roof. I love Fiddler on the Roof, I really do. Shelly and I used to watch it over and over when we were 14-ish. As you can imagine, I've seen it many times. However, today something occurred to me that never had before.

That was this: When the sisters sing Matchmaker, Tzeitel is getting all huffy with both Hodel and Chava. She says to Hodel, "I thought you had your eye on the rabbi's son," to which Hodel replies, "We only have one rabbi, and he only has one son. Why shouldn't I want the best?" This never bothered me until today, but it should have, and this is why:

This is the rabbi. (And if you want to get nitpicky, no, this is not a picture from Fiddler. Goggle images has a shocking lack of pictures from that movie, if anyone wanted to know. But it is the same actor, and he looks about the same as the rabbi.) You'll notice he is quite old. Which would also make his SON quite old, no? So Hodel, who looks like this:

is keeping her eye on a man who is 50, 60 ish? The rabbi can't be younger than 70. I'd guess more like 80, really.

The other option here is that the rabbi's son actually IS around Hodel's age, in which case the rabbi is a sicky and not Hodel. But you must agree that either way, someone in this story is a sicky.

Thank goodness we'll never know, since Hodel ends up with dreamy, idealistic Perchik, the teacher from Kiev in the end anyway.

Oh, and for you poor unfortunate souls who have never seen this fine film, you can see Matchmaker here.

And the rabbi makes an appearance about halfway through Tradition, which is quite long, but just so wonderful.