I didn’t mean to do it: it just happened. Here is Helen Macdonald, in her New York Times bestseller H is for Hawk describing what happened to her after her father’s sudden and unexpected death. And while we commonly associate PTSD with combat, child abuse, rape and political violence, the everyday grief of losing a loved one can also mess with your mind. However, “PTSD most significantly impacts the initial acquisition and learning phases of memory, as opposed to the retention phase.” Two psychologists from the University of Bergen in Norway analyzed no fewer than 28 clinical studies and concluded there was marked verbal memory impairment in the PTSD groups compared to healthy controls. Psychological Trauma and MemoryĪs Professor Kristin Samuelson points out in her review of the relationship between memory and psychological trauma, patients with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) “often complain of experiencing everyday memory problems with emotionally neutral material.” In other words stress can make you forget things that have little or nothing to do with the stressful event itself. Psychological trauma and memory are intricately linked. Whatever the number, the rabbis of the Talmud identified the death of Moses with a period of transient national amnesia. Joshua’s strength weakened, and three hundred halakhot were forgotten by him, and seven hundred cases of uncertainty needed to be resolved. One thousand and seven hundred a fortiori inferences, and verbal analogies, and minutiae of the scribes were forgotten during the days of mourning for Moses. Three thousand laws were forgotten when Moses died.
Rav Yehuda says that Shmuel says: Three thousand halakhot were forgotten during the days of mourning for Moses.
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