Q. On the Six Zechirot we are to remember every day, mentioned at the end of Tefilat Shacharit, the second one reads: 'But beware and watch yourself very well, lest you forget the things that your eyes saw and lest these things depart from your heart, all the days of your life... the day you stood before Hashem att Horeb,'
Why is this remembrance different from the other five and is said in a negative form, namely do not forget and not demanding 'Remember" like the others?
A. It could be that since this admonition also includes the learning of Torah in a way that we should not forget it, such as learning everything over a hundred times, The Talmud (Niddah 30b) teaches us that when a child is in the womb, an angel comes and teaches it the entire Torah, At the moment of birth, Chazal explain, the angel taps the child on his mouth, and all the Torah he’s learned is forgotten. In that sense, we are born already with the gift of Har Sinai in us and all we have to do is not further forgetting.
Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit'a added, that even in a biologically point of view, in the uncountable cells that preserve memories, even if one has difficulty remembering, the information is still there.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as advised by Horav Shlomo Miller, Horav Dovid Pam and Horav Aharon Miller Shlit'a.
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