וּרְאִיתֶם אֹתֹוֹ וּזְכַרְתֶּם אֶת־כָּל־מִצְוֹת ה'
"And you shall see it and remember all the mitzvos of Hashem" (Bamidbar 15:39).
Through seeing the tzitzis, a Jew is reminded to observe all the mitzvos. Tzitzis consists of knots and windings, which the Torah (Devarim 22:12) calls “gedil," and at the ends are the loose strands, which our parashah calls "tzitzis." There are various opinions explaining how tzitzis symbolizes all 613 mitzvos. On the words “and remember all the mitzvos of Hashem," Rashi explains the numerical value of the word tzitzis is 600, and together with the eight strings and five knots, the total is 613. In the course of many years of davening (praying) and concentrating on these words during the kissing of the tzitzis, another idea occurred to me regarding the connection between tzitzis and remembering all the mitzvos.
