"Lifting the Ashes": Rabbi David Ingber on Parshat Tzav, 5782

"If all we do is remember, we become slaves to memory, and if all we do is forget, we erase the legacy of the past and make covenants simply a matter of nostalgia." As a community and a society, we have been imprinted with memories of forced separation, brutality, and loneliness, reflected both in current global events as well as our retellings of ancient stories. However, if we are slaves to memory and we do not use the power of compassionate, intentional forgetting, we are refusing to grow together. On our path from Purim to Pesach, we must keep in mind that it is time to retell - and rewrite - our stories.