Remember (Apr. 29)

There are certainly moments in your life that you are going to remember both good and bad. There are the things that you will want to remember and the things that you will not want to remember but either way there is some importance in remembering both. As time passes things will loose their importance and some of the details will fade. In the Jewish tradition there were certain events that were deemed so important that festivals were set up specifically to remember what happened. The tradition would be set up in such a way that the traditions and stories surrounding the event would be passed on from one generation to the next leaving very few details to pass away. Even for the smaller events in the Jewish tradition that one would want to remember, altars were set up, much like the monuments of today so that when one passed by they would ask about it and the story of that event could be told. What does the average person do in their lives to remember in this way? Most people do little or nothing. Tattoos have become something in modern society that people do to remember a certain event. Even cars are now adorned with stickers that say in memory of something or someone. These are important things to have and the more different ways we have of remmebering the better off we will be.