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The word at the end of the first verse in Psalm 70, i.e., \u201c<\/span>lehazkir<\/span><\/i>\u201d (\u201cto cause to remember\u201d) is extremely evocative: “For the leader. Of David. <\/span>Lehazkir<\/span>.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The biblical commentator Malbim points out that this psalm may have been composed while David was running for his life from his rebellious son, Absalom (II Samuel 15), difficult circumstances that brought to David\u2019s mind an earlier period of similar pressure and tension, when David sought to defend himself and escape from the onslaughts of Saul against him (I Samuel 18:9 ff.). Before, David successfully appealed to God to save him from the paranoid King\u2014he did after all survive\u2014 and now finds himself engaged in prayer once again when faced with another life-threatening peril.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our finite lives are indeed cyclical, and over the course of the years granted us, we often find ourselves in situations similar to those that we were subjected to earlier on. And when belief in God is central to our personal welfare, as it was in the psalmist\u2019s weltanschauung, we turn to the Divine again and again, praying that He will assist us in overcoming our latest difficulty.<\/span><\/p>\n

Such an attitude could be said to underlie Rabbi J.B. Soloveitchik\u2019s approach to daily prayer (see \u201cPrayer, Petition, and Crisis\u201d in <\/span>Worship of the Heart: Essays on Jewish Prayer<\/span><\/i>.) Many have wondered about the efficacy of essentially repeating the same liturgy day after day. Rabbi Soloveitchik maintained that, according to Maimonides (in Mishneh Torah, Hilchot Ta\u2019aniyot 1:1) the Torah, in Numbers 10:9, commands that human beings respond to any and all crises that daily beset them by appealing to God via blowing the <\/span>chatzotzrot<\/span><\/i> (\u201csilver trumpets\u201d). The post-Temple analogue of this is: engaging in communal prayer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, in addition to facing acute threats such as famine, poverty, storms, illness, and war, we often find ourselves often besieged in our daily lives, and therefore also \u201creminded\u201d of the various crises that we have withstood in the past\u00a0 Consequently, we can turn to God, and appeals for deliverance from the difficulties that we are presently encountering, even while optimistically recalling overcoming the challenges of the past.<\/span><\/p>\n

Granted, it is far easier to be deeply moved spiritually when confronted with \u201clife-and-death\u201c scenarios, than with the relatively minor issues that comprise our daily lives. However, those, who in addition to the regular prayers, opt to recite the entire book of Psalms each week, may be doing so in order to call up memories of past personal dilemmas that deserve constant revisiting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So many dimensions of Judaism entail \u201cremembering\u201d the national past, e.g., the redemption from Egypt, the attacks of Amalek, our being spared from the genocidal intentions of Haman, etc., that it certainly behooves us to recall as well the significant events that comprise each of our <\/span>personal <\/span><\/i>histories, and the many times that we have overcome (with Divine Assistance?) our problems and difficulties.<\/span><\/p>\n

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