לעילוי נשמת עליזה רחל בת חיים צבי
Li-rifuas Chaim Yonatan Mordechai ben Pesha Elka [Note: he is miraculously hanging in there. PLEASE keep davening]
We must be
very vigilant not to forget Torah and mitzvos. The Torah is filled with exhortations
to remember and not to forget. Forgetting can be on a simple level that it just
slips one's mind to fulfill a religious obligation or it can have a more subtle
expression when one does what he is supposed to do but does it without emotion.
In the latter case, he is "forgetting" the value of the mitzvos which
is reflected in a lackadaisical performance.
What is
the way to make sure that we don't forget Torah and mitzvos?
Dovid
Hamelech let us in on the secret: לעולם לא אשכח
דבריך - I will never forget your words, כי בם חייתני– because they are my chiyus
[vitality]. I don’t know too many people who forget to eat and even if they do
it doesn't take long for them to remember. This is because food gives people
chiyus and when they don't have it they feel weak. Torah and mitzvos are the
same. If one is lacking, he should be feeling spiritually weak because he has been
cut off from his source of chiyus.
לעולם לא אשכח דבריך כי בם חייתני.
[חותם תכנית מס' יסוד תושבע"פ
לגרי"י ריינס פרק ג']
