גְּזִירָה עַל הַמֵּת שֶׁיִּשְׁתַּכֵּחַ מִן הַלֵּב

ביטוי (אנגלית)

Decree upon the Dead that He Is Forgotten from the Heart

הגדרה (אנגלית)

The nature of the world is that the dead are eventually forgotten from the hearts of people, or that the intensity of the pain from our loss diminishes and fades with time.

(The Rabbis taught: Three matters come to thought to be created, and if they did not come - it is a law that they will come: concerning the dead who rot, and concerning the dead who are forgotten from the heart, and concerning the produce that rots - Pesachim 54b. And similarly: "He refused consolation... that upon the dead a decree was made that he be forgotten from the heart and not upon the living" - Rashi on Genesis 37:38. And similarly: "And if a covenant was made with a dead man who is forgotten from the heart, I did not divert my mind from him even for a moment. And to alleviate my sorrow, I united with his soul and repeated the words of his Torah" - Mordechai ben Yehezkel, Sefer HaMa'asiyot, Fourth Part, The Barefoot Tzaddik, page 99.)