PARSHAS SHELACH: TZITZIS TO REMIND US OF SHABBOS!

We find this week in the parsha, parsha shlach, the parsha of the mekoyeshish, who went out and was mechallel shabbos. This is a ma'aseh digetanah d'vei Eliyahu. The Ribono shel Olam asked Moshe Rabbeinu, "What's going on over here? There was kabbalas haTorah, and a person went and he was mechallel shabbos. Omer Hakadosh Baruch Hu l'Moshe, "Mipnei mah chillul zeh asah shabbos?" How could it be? How is it possible that a person soon after kabbalas haTorah went and was mechallel shabbos?" Moshe Rabbeinu did not didn't have what to answer. The Eibershter said, "I'll answer." During the week, a person wears tefillin, and tefillin is a reminder l'maan tiyeh Torahs Hashem b'ficha. It's a reminder. A person wears tefillin, it's a reminder for the mitzvos not to do aveiros. However, shabbos you don't wear tefillin. Because you don't wear tefillin, the mekoyeshish forgot forgot about shabbos. Meaning to say, like Rav Saadiah explains, a person can know about mitzvos in his mo'ach, but in his leib, in his heart, he can forget. So the Eibershter said, "Shabbos there's no tefillin, and therefore the mekoyeshish forgot about shabbos." Says the Ribono shel Olam, "I'm going to give you the mitzvah of tzitzis. That's the smichus to the parsha of mikoishesh, to the parsha of tzitzis at the end of the parsha. That tzitzis is a reminder. Like we know U'risem oisoi, you see the the tzitzis was a charas of all the kol mitzvos Hashem to remember all the mitzvos. Like Rashi says, it's oileh taryag. The word tzitzis is 600, eight strings, five knots to remind us the 613 mitzvos. But oifen that the mitzvah of tzitzis, that's of course a reminder for all the mitzvos, but it's a reminder for Shabbos. The medrish says that a person goes without tzitzis on Shabbos k'ilu mikoishesh eitzim. Cuz the tzitzis is a reminder. Yes, tzitzis is a reminder for all the taryag mitzvos. But let us try to take the mitzvah of tzitzis as a reminder for the mitzvah of Shabbos to be nozer on Shabbos as we got the mitzvah of tzitzis to remind us of Shabbos. We spoke about it a couple of weeks ago that these are the moireh Shabbos. The concept is that the moireh is that a person shouldn't by mistake be over on Shabbos. Let us try to utilize the mitzvah of tzitzis. Of course it's supposed to be a reminder for all the mitzvos, but it should be a reminder for Shabbos, for shmira Shabbos. Have a wonderful Shabbos.