To Remember. To Forget

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September 12 2021
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Haazinu 

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Each of us is granted two precious and seemingly contradictory gifts - memory and forgetfulness. Of these two, we often value memory more, for without memory, we simply do not exist in any way that makes sense - personally or collectively... Before Moshe departs from this world he prophetically shares with the Children of Israel how they will stray from the Torah...One of the most striking verses in Ha'azinu has God decrying their forgetfulness... Forgetting is a natural process, but it is also one we must learn to control. If we forget what we must remember...well, that is when we forget what we cannot live without and find ourselves forgetting God.

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    Learning on the Marcos and Adina Katz YUTorah site is sponsored today by anonymously for a hakaras hatov to Hashem for all of the blessings He has given, and to the rebbeim and staff of YU and by the Spira Family l'ilui nishmat Chanoch ben Moshe Chaim, Dr.Thomas Spira, on his yahrzeit and by Francine Lashinsky and Dr. Alexander and Meryl Weingarten in memory of Rose Lashinsky, Raizel bat Zimel, z"l on the occasion of her yahrzeit on Nissan 14, and in honor of their children, Mark, Michael, Julie, Marnie and Michelle, and in honor of Agam bat Meirav Berger and all of the other hostages and all of the chayalim and by the Goldberg and Mernick Families in loving memory of the yahrzeit of Illean K. Goldberg, Chaya Miriam bas Chanoch