בשכחה תלוי הגלות ובזכרון תלויה הגאולה

“Forgetfulness leads to exile, while remembrance is the secret of redemption.”

Holding on to memory and identity is what allows a people or a person to eventually return and heal.

— Traditional Israel Wisdom, Israel

Source: Attributed to the Baal Shem Tov (1698–1760), founder of Hasidism; widely cited in Hasidic and Jewish historiographical tradition