Let's Go

It’s always interesting to see the conceptual interplay between letters of the same word when they are anagrammed. Ratzon, desire (the root letters being reish, tzadi and nun)—“In the way a person wants (rotzeh) to go, G-d leads him” (Makkos 10b). And when a person has a strong enough desire, it creates a tzinor (same letters as above), a channel, a pipeline. And that pipeline needs protection (netzor).

It is a caution to watch what you really want. “More than you guard anything, guard (netzor) your heart, for from it are the sources of life” (Mishlei 4:23). And the Vilna Gaon says that the word netzor reflects a very strong type of protecting.

And now that we understand that, narutz, let’s go. Let’s run.